How to Use social network in a Sentence

social network

noun
  • And strangers don’t carry the risk of spilling our secrets to the rest of our social network.
    Annabel Abbs-Streets, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • Twitter has been in a tither since Elon Musk took over at the social network.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The rise of social networks has proven that Huxley was right and Orwell was wrong.
    Jonathan Taplin, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Aries March 21 – April 19 The vibe could be off in your social network today.
    Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 27 May 2024
  • In terms of pants, there are five styles that have taken over the streets, shop windows, and social networks.
    Mayte Salido, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Both of us have written about social networks for over a dozen years.
    Mike Isaac, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • The social network also swung to a net loss in the period.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 July 2022
  • Musk said the moves were necessary to stem losses at the social network.
    Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Even the size of a person’s social network can impact health.
    Monica Haider, CNN, 16 June 2024
  • But unless the social network includes guardrails, users may come to rue that wish.
    Dalvin Brown, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Press Enter to skip to end of carousel More than just a hit, TikTok has blown up the model of what a social network can be.
    Scott Clement, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet and an avid poster of Twitter memes, has declined an offer to join the board of the social network.
    Brian Contrerasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Of course Musk can’t build cars or rockets or a social network without help.
    Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The mere fact that the world’s richest man was on the verge of buying the most influential—though far from the largest—social network, is its own kind of chaos.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 July 2022
  • A month into Elon Musk's reign at Twitter, the chaos at the social network continues.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Musk spent the better part of the past two years turning Twitter into a far-right social network.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • So in Seattle’s social networks there are two sorts of counter-factions.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 30 July 2024
  • Like a party, a social network draws attendees if there are already some in the room.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Back in 2015 the social network launched a Facebook Lite app for emerging markets.
    Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The fastest-growing social network this year in the Asia-Pacific will be TikTok.
    Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Yep, the services that parents use to track down their children have become a sort of social network.
    Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Meta’s other social network, Facebook, has worked this way for a while.
    Joanna Stern, wsj.com, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Some posts are delightful, riffing on the fresh chords of a new social network, one that’s still finding its rhythm.
    WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The world’s richest man is now in charge of the struggling social network after six months of public and legal wrangling over the deal.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Musk's social network rejoined GARM little more than a month ago, but the reunion didn't last long.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The thing people forget is that the migrant social networks are very potent.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
  • On the largest social networks, at least, users aren’t taken by surprise by the graphic content.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
  • MySpace was the world-beating social network once upon a time.
    PCMAG, 9 Feb. 2023
  • To do that, its software mines more than 40 different resources – from social networks such as LinkedIn to company filings and academic databases – with the goal of a creating a map of the connections between the business and its target customer.
    David Prosser, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • To this day, most of Tupperware's sales are done by tens of thousands of individual dealers hawking bowls, baking pans, carafes and vintage tumblers in each other's living rooms, on Facebook or on other social networks.
    Willem Marx, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024

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