How to Use byte in a Sentence
byte
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Or take or go—these being the next two largest entries by bytes.
—Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
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This address is prepended to any block of data bytes being sent.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2023
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The torrent of bits and bytes pours into laptops and phones held in the hands of billions.
—Mike Oliver | [email protected], al, 17 Aug. 2019
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Surely that will bite you – or byte you – in uncomfortable ways.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
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At its core, compression is about reducing the number of bits and bytes in a file.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2020
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After reading the image file from the disk, each byte is analyzed.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 July 2024
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From there, an attacker can control the file offset and the 4-byte value of each store.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026
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In the twenty-first century, bits and bytes are as threatening as bullets and bombs.
—William J. Lynn Iii, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2011
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Moving the right bytes to the model fast is necessary work, but metadata alone isn’t enough.
—Michael Leone, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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But a different sort of conflict, waged with bytes rather than bullets, is already being fought here.
—Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 10 May 2017
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As James surely understands, opening a vacuum can say far more than a sound byte.
—Ben Golliver, SI.com, 12 Mar. 2018
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Alice thinks that Bob does not support 16 bytes of entropy and accepts 1 byte.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2019
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In hip-hop, especially, an album is now a data set — bytes first, music second.
—New York Times, 9 May 2018
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Too often, though, the play feels overloaded with ideas, themes and moral conundrums scattered in random bursts and bytes.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 31 July 2024
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And now the conversation from a business standpoint is, does this work in 15-second bytes?
—Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
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The service is agnostic about what is being stored and handles all file content the same way, as a collection of bytes.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
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The bulk of innovation has been shunted into the invisible realm of bytes and code.
—Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2019
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Is this determined by looking at how many bytes of data are devoted to pornography?
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 2 Jan. 2025
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All the apps, photos, music and other files on our devices can quickly add up, using up every byte of storage on our phones.
—Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024
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Even the simplest storage provider has code to copy bytes from an internal storage system and deliver them to the user.
—Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
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Smaller transactions had to bid higher to compete with large transactions in terms of cost per virtual byte.
—Liam Wright, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
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The 8-bit byte enabled a computer to run software that produced both upper- and lower-case characters.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2022
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Considering your average video can have as many as 60 frames per second, this can save a truly bonkers number of bytes.
—Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2016
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That makes sense, given the way their generation exists online, interfacing with a constant stream of bits and bytes.
—Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2016
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This converter takes the digital bits and bytes from a music stream and turns them into a complicated analog signal.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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China placed its big bets on physical infrastructure; the US is instead gambling on bits and bytes.
—Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
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If found, the first four bytes of the lyrics file will be compared with the sequence \xFF\xFE\x00\x00.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 Apr. 2024
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The company's name refers to 0s and 1s dancing together to form a byte, the binary code used by computers.
—Sherisse Pham, CNN, 21 May 2020
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Data can be retrieved far more quickly, too, with Zen 5 able to fetch and decode twice as many bytes of data each clock cycle as Zen 4.
—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 24 July 2024
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It’s been a long way down from their kind’s originary pose as benign geniuses who wanted to bring peace, love, and connectedness to the world one byte or bit of binary code at a time.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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