How to Use IP in a Sentence

IP

abbreviation or noun
  • Open a web browser and enter the IP address of your router in the address bar.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • To get certified to open a child care center with the state, applicants must use a static IP address.
    Claire Stremple, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • How well a phone resists water is measured on an IP (or Ingress Protection) scale.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
  • By the terms of the proposal, Wright would halt his own legal action in the connected cases and forfeit the right to pursue IP rights over Bitcoin.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Note about this week’s episode: Apple continues to deny Masimo’s IP claims.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 8 May 2024
  • Every new host coming onto the network required a new IP address.
    IEEE Spectrum, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Bowser says the movie’s success proved that Nintendo’s strategy to take its IP to other mediums has legs.
    WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The prime Los Angeles real estate and the treasure trove of IP would likely find multiple bidders.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But if the broadly positive reviews are to be trusted, perhaps the franchise will prove not all IP reproductions are made equal.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The administration has been unwilling to stop this global IP heist.
    Stephen J. Ubl, STAT, 6 July 2023
  • Since animals aren’t allowed to own IP, the image risked falling into the public domain, which would prevent Slater from licensing the image.
    Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 16 Aug. 2023
  • And with its cash hoard only growing, and a relative dearth of legacy IP to build off of, Netflix is frequently cited as a possible buyer of assets.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2023
  • Investigators were reportedly able to track down Paez via the IP address.
    Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
  • One reason: Audiences are paying to see these longer installments of IP franchises.
    Sam Sanders, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2023
  • It’s been a complicated time to be in the entertainment industry, with so many projects on hold or getting lost in the studio and networks’ near constant pivots to reusable IP.
    Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Most papers so far have relied on using miners’ IP addresses to judge their location and then looking at what energy sources supply the grid in that region.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2024
  • As for statements from a former product designer, who said that the company tracked IP addresses to determine the location of different users on the same account, the court flagged the same issue.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Friday’s post contains IP addresses and browser user agents used by the threat actors that others can use to indicate if they have also been affected.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Other pieces of information that could have been compromised are IP addresses, account usernames, and data on how members used the Kaiser website.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • This marked the series’ shift to the first-person shooter/exploration format most people would associate with the franchise today, and was the point at which Fallout went from being a cult favorite to massively popular video game IP.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Success in Hollywood comes from owning intellectual property, and Disney has since maintained a tight grip on its IP.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Federal authorities were informed of the messages and traced two IP addresses to Catalano’s workplace and home in Fresno, according to court documents.
    Melissa Alonso, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The game is cartoonish, colorful, silly, and self-serious in equal measure as WoW ever was, with a welter of distinctions created by its venerable and beloved IP.
    Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 13 July 2023
  • The unit will also be investing in golf IP, product and services in partnership with the company’s business development and analytics team.
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
  • These websites collect data on the IP addresses attempting to scrape images; Spawning can often identify the groups doing the scraping and the regions with the most overall scraping activity.
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Authorities were also able to link his Discord account to his IP address, personal email, phone number and other information.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The Biden administration proposal, scheduled for release Monday, requires such firms to reveal foreign customers’ names and IP addresses.
    Courtney Rozen, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Google responded with information including the names of six accounts, one of which included Aspinwall’s name, as well as the IP addresses associated with those accounts.
    Aaron Schaffer, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Its popularity was eventually trashed when Lucas sold the IP to corrupt Disney and the series was insanely mass-reproduced — extinguishing the sci-fi genre’s artistic potential.
    Armond White, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The data collected can vary by website, and the cookie pop-ups allow some control over what can be gathered; however, the information can include IP addresses, fingerprinting of devices, and various identifiers.
    Matt Burgess, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024

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