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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 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 After the appetizers, waiters arrived in unison to lift silver cloches and reveal blushes, and eyeliners appeared once the main course was cleared. — Vogue, 5 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 For the latest episode of Travel, Unfiltered, Travel + Leisure spoke with waiters about what diners might not realize is happening at restaurants. — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2026

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servers

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The worst damage was in the facilities division, where about half the servers were encrypted — meaning that district staff could not access their own systems and records.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
In response, those servers delivered an exploit that served the zero-click payload when the ad appeared on an individual’s device.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026

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