How to Use peer-to-peer in a Sentence

peer-to-peer

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  • The regime just doesn't match up peer-to-peer on the ground.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Gray-web peer-to-peer file-sharing websites are just one place people can find the film.
    John Semley, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In 2022, the company launched Shein Exchange, a peer-to-peer resale platform, in the U.S.
    Samantha Conti, WWD, 9 July 2024
  • The region currently doesn’t have any form of rental platforms, not even a peer-to-peer one.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 15 May 2025
  • Renters can also find EVs on Turo, a peer-to-peer car-sharing platform that’s like the Airbnb of autos.
    Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023
  • With more than 56 million accounts, Cash App is one of the largest peer-to-peer payment platforms in the country.
    Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The showcase marks the launch of a partnership between the brand and By Rotation, the peer-to-peer fashion rental app.
    Hanna McNeila, Footwear News, 23 May 2025
  • Shapiro, who subscribed to many of the ideals of the peer-to-peer movement, was beginning to fear where cloud computing might lead the web.
    WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The peer-to-peer service — where fans swapped catalogs of MP3 song files — walloped the record business.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
  • The latter will take on mentorship roles in 2025 for a peer-to-peer learning approach.
    Martino Carrera, WWD, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Over the years, the room listing has eclipsed the homeowner profile on the platform, reducing its peer-to-peer vibe.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 10 May 2023
  • And then, the crook will quickly close their Venmo or other peer-to-peer payment account.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2024
  • All Napster did was enable people to transfer files in a peer-to-peer manner.
    Gary Marcus, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Top-performing fundraising emails, texts and peer-to-peer messages were signed by Martin in the month since his election on Feb. 1, the memo says.
    Isabella Murray, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The peer-to-peer apps offer an easy way to donate to a friend, say someone who is buying the latest going-away gift at the office.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Plus, Airbnb on wheels already exists through peer-to-peer rental companies like Turo.
    Joann Muller, Axios, 25 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, Venmo could lose momentum in the peer-to-peer payments vertical, with Cash App and Zelle on the rise.
    Lisa Kailai Han,fred Imbert, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Betfair Exchange, the biggest U.K. peer-to-peer betting platform, says the odds have narrowly flipped to a Trump win.
    Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Speak to answering that problem, and present solutions peer-to-peer, so as to come from a place of equality.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Its first idea was for peer-to-peer product rentals, and its second was for a platform for renting e-vehicles.
    Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2024
  • Venmo is a peer-to-peer digital wallet where users link their bank accounts to send money back and forth.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
  • After renting the truck on a peer-to-peer rental app, Mr. Jabbar headed for New Orleans, recording video messages along the way.
    Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Just millions of computer nodes around the world running the immutable, cross border, peer-to-peer network.
    Riley McDermid, Boston Herald, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Napster launched in 1999 as a peer-to-peer file sharing service — becoming a poster child for piracy.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Following its launch in 2017, Zelle grew to become one of the largest U.S. peer-to-peer payments networks by total payments.
    Reuters, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Third, the learning process is improved both from peer-to-peer relations and from more senior to younger employees.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Purchasing used clothing from peer-to-peer online stores like Depop and thredUP.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The free, Android-exclusive app retains all the features from the defunct Google Pay except one: peer-to-peer payments.
    PCMAG, 14 Feb. 2025
  • However, nearly a quarter of parents are also using peer-to-peer payment apps like Venmo to send allowance to their children, and 20% are using direct deposit to their kids’ bank accounts.
    Rachel Barber, USA Today, 20 June 2025
  • Instead of routing data through third-party servers, the Deeper Connect Mini uses peer-to-peer connections to maintain privacy while minimizing latency and bandwidth throttling.
    Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 20 June 2025

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