How to Use the Web in a Sentence
the Web
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Tie a long piece of string to the center point; weave and loop from the center out to create the web.
—Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 9 Aug. 2023
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And that’s because the landscape of social media and news and the Web have changed.
—Kajsa Kedefors, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
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Best of the web — More stories like this, please, about celebrity shills feeling the pain.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
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The heart of the novel is the web of subterfuges, quarrels and reunions that comprise Julien and Mme.
—J. Michael Lennon, wsj.com, 7 Apr. 2023
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Apply a glittery base coat, then use a thin brush to create the web effect.
—Ariana Yaptangco, ELLE, 30 Aug. 2023
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As time goes on, these tools will of course get smarter and bolt on more functions—such as being able to scour the web for images.
—David Nield, WIRED, 3 July 2023
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Shapiro, who subscribed to many of the ideals of the peer-to-peer movement, was beginning to fear where cloud computing might lead the web.
—WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
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One wing is for what the Web site calls independent living.
—Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
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This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers.
—Ben Weiss, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
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OpenAI released a plug-in this year that enabled its chatbot to surf the web through Microsoft’s Bing.
—Olivia Wang, New York Times, 14 July 2023
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Here are 30 easy and delicious pumpkin bar recipes from around the web that are guaranteed to get you into the spirit of the season.
—Samantha Brodsky, Country Living, 5 July 2023
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There were detailed instructions on a message board about how to get to the special swimming hole, but the Web page wouldn’t fully load.
—Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
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Mustafa Suleyman: That is the flip side of having access to information on the web.
—Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
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Meta chose to adopt an open approach after seeing someone leak an early version of Llama to the web in May.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
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The base tablet is ideal for everyday needs: watching videos, reading books, browsing the web, chatting with friends.
—Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 12 July 2023
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This is the web version of Fortune Crypto, a daily newsletter.
—Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 8 Sep. 2023
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From the Web browser down to the transistor, each sub-area or system is built atop some other, older sub-area or system, the layers dense but legible.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
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The heady days of Web 2.0 were characterized by a celebration of the web as a channel through which data was abundant and widely available.
—Tim Hwang, WIRED, 11 July 2023
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In its 2020 paper, OpenAI merely said that most of the training data was generally scraped from the web, including archived books and Wikipedia.
—Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 6 July 2023
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The company will be adding more functionality to the web experience in the coming weeks, Meta said.
—Reuters, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
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But Amazon’s legal troubles demonstrate how the fast action and rapid reversals that served the e-commerce giant so well on the web may not translate to the physical world.
—Caroline O'Donovan, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
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While the interface requires credentials for access, Claroty found hidden routes that gave access to some of the web functions without a password.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2023
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The move potentially heralds a big shift in how people use computers, apps, and the web, with clever AI programs completing chores on their behalf.
—WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
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By Sunday afternoon, the web address x.com was already redirecting to what was once Twitter.
—Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 24 July 2023
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Threads, the newest social media platform from Facebook's parent company Meta, is coming to the web and desktop computers over the next few days, the company says.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
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More than three years into the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s departure, the web of ties built up over Harry’s adult lifetime as a working royal has now almost entirely untangled.
—Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2023
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On a piece of notebook paper, Robinson-Goodnight recently jotted down in bright-blue ink the web of businesses that her family has lost over the years — a variety store, a coffee shop, a bar.
—Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
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Parent company Meta Platforms says Threads users will soon be able to log in, post, view and interact with other posts via a browser on a desktop computer, as the web version rolls out to users in the coming days.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 23 Aug. 2023
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This is the web version of CFO Daily, a newsletter on the trends and individuals shaping corporate finance.
—Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
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And a set of policy proposals that aim to restore parents’ ability to shepherd their kids on the wild west that is the Web all recorded high levels of support across parents from both political sides.
—Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
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