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modem

[moh-duhm, -dem] / ˈmoʊ dəm, -dɛm /


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June, now 63, said her home office at the time had a dial-up modem, trading software downloaded from a compact disc and a dodgy internet connection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

With Qualcomm specifically, investors have also worried that the company was losing business with modem customers Apple and Samsung Electronics.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

The iPhone 17e features a cellular modem made by Apple, the C1X, which the company says is twice as fast as the C1 modem in the iPhone 16e.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

For Comcast customers who lease an Advanced Xfinity Gateway modem, there’s an integrated Wi-Fi motion sensor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

In his old age this same total warfare had come back to roost as total hatred, as the most modem of hostilities.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Some variants come equipped with mesh modems, which make them less vulnerable to electronic warfare, according to the U.S. military and weapons analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Cars were coming along with more computers and modems, and controlled by software that could be updated over the air.

From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026

The actual road that led Redick to the Lakers has been lined with coaxial cables, modems and Wi-Fi signals, and is painfully and, at times, beautifully structureless.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024

That, plus subsequent cases, eventually would help popularize the internet — jacking early modems into the telephone system — and the legal breakup of the AT&T/Bell monopoly.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

Looking back, what enabled Netscape to take off was the existence, from the earlier phase, of millions of PCs, many already equipped with modems.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman


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