the Internet

noun

: a system that connects computers throughout the world

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For example, consider that the AI was data-trained on content scanned across the Internet. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 And while Twitch says that only 0.5 percent of users will be affected by these new limits, gamers are warning that the move threatens to eradicate large swaths of recent gaming history from the Internet. Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2025 Our best guess—and the Internet’s best guess—is Meg Donnelly. Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 19 Feb. 2025 Connected cars are great—at least until some company leaves unencrypted location data on the Internet for anyone to find. Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for the Internet

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“The Internet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Internet. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

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