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[web] / wɛb /


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Google’s core business, built upon ranking and indexing the open web, is facing a structural disruption as artificial intelligence changes how users navigate the internet.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

Carvão said the web of overlapping investments increases the risk of contagion if a weaker company such as CoreWeave runs into trouble.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

One could be forgiven if memories of the cool-internet era have grown fuzzier over the years, now that the web has become a self-regulating machine in an indomitable surveillance system and all.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

And the antiques business was just another front in a web of deceit that used dozens of lonely people like Stafford as unknowing money launderers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The spiders rustled and moved in the web.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

Internet infrastructure, transportation systems, social media platforms, and artificial intelligence applications all depend on analyzing complicated webs of interconnected information.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

In some frontline Ukrainian cities, nets are hung high and wide across long stretches of road, forming corridors like spiders' webs to thwart aerial attacks.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

They form webs of businesses without storefronts that are owned by other businesses, passing vast sums of money back and forth and even overseas with minimal oversight.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

He said he spent his childhood pulling the Spidey poses and shooting webs, and now being able to portray him is "the best feeling ever".

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

The noise bounced off one hundred iron webs in an earsplitting exchange of sounds.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

The revolution will not be televised, but it might have webbed feet and bulging eyes.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

Sindle, less than 5 feet tall with curly blond hair, was born with a birth defect, toes that were partly fused together, giving her feet a webbed appearance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

LaJoie estimated the webbed glove was worth three counts of drag for Logano.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024

Back in the forest, a Wallace’s flying frog sprang from a tree—its spindly legs and webbed toes spread-eagle—seeming more bat than amphibian.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024

Except for the wet solidity under his webbed feet, he was living in nothing—a solid nothing, like chaos.

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

It involves wearing a special suit with webbing to allow mid-air lift.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The local authority advised people not to be concerned about the "harmless" white webbing seen in trees in Belle Isle Park, Exeter, caused by an infestation of caterpillars.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

To hold the cane webbing in place, add wood glue and a reed spline — a continuous strip of material that fills the gap.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

Many spiders use their webbing to create balloons or parachutes that allow them to float away — sometimes traveling many miles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

The ribs carried the webbing, which was the ceiling itself.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay


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