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waiters

noun

plural of waiter

as in waitresses

a person who serves food or drink waiters at that elegant restaurant must go through an extended training program before being allowed to serve customers

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Recent Examples of waiters Turturro, 69, has been staying at the hotel for decades and is on familiar terms with the waiters. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026 Praise for Selldorf and her award-winning renovation was shown through clinking glasses, applause, and smiles around the room, as waiters in single file arrived with decadent dishes. — Eliza Jordan, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026 And if the fever dream of a Best Picture nomination does come true, well, YCSE’s haters just might become its waiters at the table of success. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026 The service The service here is a nod to the turn-of-the-last-century where waiters and barmen wear starched white dinner jackets and a pianist serenades your cocktails in a grand salon. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026 At the time they were cast in Heated Rivalry, Williams and Storrie were both working as waiters. — Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026 Luis Mora, a Waverly Hotel waiter, jumps an obstacle in his race to the finish line during the Hotel Sales Management Association waiters race to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association. — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 31 Aug. 2026 Even beyond the food, Mastro’s offers the ultimate sophisticated dining ambience with dim lighting, elegant finishes and waiters in waistcoats. — Nora Heston Tarte, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2026 My friend Erickson Wilcox, who was one of my waiters from Lot 61, came over and called out bingo. — Derek C. Blasberg, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026

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servers

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Bitdefender confirmed that the malware contained the technology needed to turn infected phones into residential proxy servers.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Those weaknesses could enable cybercriminals to seize control of unprotected website servers, install malware, pilfer customer data and even take sites down completely.

— Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

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