the Internet

noun

: a system that connects computers throughout the world

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The agent found an unexpected route out of the environment, which was intended to be isolated, reached the Internet and broke into Hugging Face to obtain hidden answers to the benchmark. Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 22 July 2026 In attempting to follow that instruction, OpenAI said the model spent an hour searching for ways to circumvent sandbox restrictions intended to block external access to the Internet. Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 22 July 2026 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 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 25 Jul. 2026.

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