the Internet

noun

: a system that connects computers throughout the world

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The agent then goes out into the Internet to collect data and synthesize a lengthy report. Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025 Newspapers, television and the Internet are crammed with opinions about that from all sides. George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2025 No one in her comments or any of her subscribers had a problem with a prepubescent middle schooler being exposed to the dangers of the Internet with absolutely no privacy in her daily life. Karen Fratti, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025 But the next step — compiling training data for its robot AI program — is a far more difficult task than simply gathering text from the Internet to train a chatbot. Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 17 Mar. 2025 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 13 Apr. 2025.

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