the Internet

noun

: a system that connects computers throughout the world

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When a major cloud provider sneezes, the Internet catches a cold. Tasmin Lockwood,katrina Bishop, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025 Amazon Web Services, a cloud service provider that supports much of the Internet and many online tools and apps, experienced an outage due to a problem with one of its core database products, the company shared with NBC News. Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025 PageRank is more complicated than eigenvector centrality in part because links on the Internet are one-directional, whereas friendships in a social network are bidirectional, a symmetry that simplifies the math. Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2025 Customers could shutter their own data centers and simply access those same solutions via the Internet. Chris Degnan, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the Internet

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