as in waiters
a person who serves food or drink
we had barely finished ordering when the server brought our salads
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Recent Examples of servers
After accessing servers under Jubair’s control, the criminal complaint said, investigators found bitcoins that a blockchain analysis determined had been paid by victims.
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Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 19 Sep. 2025
Intel was once the standard-bearer for semiconductors for computers, servers and other electronics.
—Steve Kopack, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2025
Mahr's team launched a public version of the White House Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool within 72 hours of its removal from government servers; the Environmental Protection Agency's EJScreen tool within 48 hours of its removal; and critical CDC data within 24 hours.
—Elisabeth Brier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
This feature is central to AI servers, which rely on linking many chips to handle massive workloads.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Datacenters rely on water-intensive cooling to keep servers functional, while the power plants that supply their electricity often demand additional freshwater for generation.
—Michaela Rychetska, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
So tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build out the data centers — giant, energy-sucking buildings full of computer servers — to ensure the US has the technical infrastructure to deliver all of the AI magic.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Beyond the water that cools the servers, data centers indirectly contribute to water use through the electricity generation needed to power their operations.
—Shaolei Ren, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
Vulnerability reports for both POP3 email servers and IMAP email hosts can be found on the Shadowserver Foundation site.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 19 Sep. 2025
Intel was once the standard-bearer for semiconductors for computers, servers and other electronics.
—Steve Kopack, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2025
Mahr's team launched a public version of the White House Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool within 72 hours of its removal from government servers; the Environmental Protection Agency's EJScreen tool within 48 hours of its removal; and critical CDC data within 24 hours.
—Elisabeth Brier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
This feature is central to AI servers, which rely on linking many chips to handle massive workloads.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Datacenters rely on water-intensive cooling to keep servers functional, while the power plants that supply their electricity often demand additional freshwater for generation.
—Michaela Rychetska, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
So tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build out the data centers — giant, energy-sucking buildings full of computer servers — to ensure the US has the technical infrastructure to deliver all of the AI magic.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Beyond the water that cools the servers, data centers indirectly contribute to water use through the electricity generation needed to power their operations.
—Shaolei Ren, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
Vulnerability reports for both POP3 email servers and IMAP email hosts can be found on the Shadowserver Foundation site.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for servers
waiters
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Meanwhile, at Café Central, waiters dressed in waistcoats serve melange (a famed Viennese coffee) beneath vaulted ceilings once frequented by Trotsky and Freud.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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My entire childhood was being the boss’s son and having all the Scottish and Irish waitresses and waiters, the Russian guy making fruit salads, the Hungarian guy who made the Jell-O molds and the Haitian guys in the kitchen busting my chops for being the boss’s son.—
Frank DiGiacomo,
Billboard,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Servers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servers. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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