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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The platform integrates with existing agentic frameworks, including Google’s Agent Development Kit and Langchain, while maintaining compatibility with any MCP-compliant tool server implementation.
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Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
If the server receives $25 as a tip in that example — or $5 above the mandatory tip — the $5 could be eligible for the tax break, according to the experts.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
Users share intimate spiritual moments that now exist as data points in corporate servers.
—Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 16 Sep. 2025
These sensors connect via industrial networks and edge computers to central servers or the cloud.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
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Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
If the server receives $25 as a tip in that example — or $5 above the mandatory tip — the $5 could be eligible for the tax break, according to the experts.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
Users share intimate spiritual moments that now exist as data points in corporate servers.
—Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 16 Sep. 2025
These sensors connect via industrial networks and edge computers to central servers or the cloud.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for server
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While Dad tries to give Harrison directions from inside a vault, with the camera on FaceTime, Harrison is busy using waiter routes and vault codes to navigate the mansion.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, at Café Central, waiters dressed in waistcoats serve melange (a famed Viennese coffee) beneath vaulted ceilings once frequented by Trotsky and Freud.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Holliday’s portrayal of the gum-chewing diner waitress landed many of the show’s laughs.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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After spending months in a FEMA trailer following devastating floods last winter, Caudill moved into a low-income apartment in a hollow outside of town with his partner, Cassie Collins, 31, a waitress who is recovering from substance abuse.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Server.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/server. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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