as in waiter
a person who serves food or drink
we had barely finished ordering when the server brought our salads
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Recent Examples of server
While data center buildings can last for decades, the internal servers and chips are often replaced every 3 to 5 years.
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Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 6 Mar. 2026
And that's just not how servers were historically built.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2026
The observations were described in a paper that was posted on the preprint server arXiv.org and accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2026
Instead, as reported by Popular Science, the backend servers treated him as the owner of nearly 7,000 robot vacuums operating across 24 countries.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2026
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Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 6 Mar. 2026
And that's just not how servers were historically built.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2026
The observations were described in a paper that was posted on the preprint server arXiv.org and accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2026
Instead, as reported by Popular Science, the backend servers treated him as the owner of nearly 7,000 robot vacuums operating across 24 countries.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for server
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Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office has fined two swanky Beacon Hill restaurants more than $420,000 for shortchanging waiters of a 3% service fee the Boston establishments were charging customers.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
6 Mar. 2026
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While Southerners can keep a secret to their graves, Kennedy and Bessette opted to have caterers, waiters, and other reception staff sign confidentiality agreements, too, according to People.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
5 Mar. 2026
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Kordia had come to the US first on a tourist visa and then transitioned to a student visa, studying English while working as a waitress and at a clothing store and helping care for her US citizen mother and brother, her attorneys said.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
3 Mar. 2026
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The restaurant is so close to the detention facility that waitress Valerie Tellez frequently drives there to make food deliveries.—
Lexi Salazar,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Server.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/server. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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