servers

plural of server
as in waiters
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 servers Unlike a lot of artificial intelligence companies, SpaceX earns a profit from selling time on its servers and cloud platforms to other AI companies. — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026 Instead of sending raw sensor data to remote servers, an AI model running on an energy-efficient microcontroller processes the information directly at the measurement site. — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026 Legacy data centers, filled with lower-power servers used for things like networking or storage, are often air-cooled. — Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026 More recently, Alpine has been adopted for use in desktops and servers. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026 Autoscaling, which adds or removes servers as traffic changes, can absorb those bursts, but only once a latency budget (the longest acceptable wait for a result) is defined. — Srinivas Chippagiri, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026 Thunder Valley Casino Resort is hiring for more than 100 part-time and full-time positions ranging from food servers to front desk workers and emergency medical technicians. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026 The network includes more than 3,000 servers across over 80 locations. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2026 Olivia’s terrible sub-freeway apartment is also right above some guy running video-game servers, which make Olivia’s floor buzz all day. — Noel Murray, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for servers
waiters
Noun
  • Luckily, waiters are standing by with large jugs of water, ready to refill at the sight of sweat dripping down your forehead.
    — Ali Domrongchai, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2026
  • He is venerated as the patron saint of Vienna and Warsaw as well as bakers and waiters.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

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“Servers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servers. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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