the Internet

noun

: a system that connects computers throughout the world

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Though the gender is unknown, the breed has since been ID’ed by canine lovers on the Internet as a Samoyed. Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026 Mathematical proofs about graphs have been applied to all kinds of real-world networks, including the Internet. Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 14 July 2026 Because the injection must then be sent (or pushed) to each specific target, the scale of the attack is limited, hampering mass exploits that hit the Internet at large. Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026 Their son had discovered the breed on the Internet during Zoom school. ABC News, 7 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for the Internet

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“The Internet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Internet. Accessed 22 Jul. 2026.

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