web address
noun
URL.
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Web address
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web addresses
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web address
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Web address
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Etymology
Origin of web address
First recorded in 1990–95
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From his office computer in California, he went to deepseek.com—the same web address his friend in China had used—pasted in the rebuttal, and asked the bot to verify each claim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
A good sign is if it the web address ends with .pharmacy.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
The ads included a QR code and web address for those interested in learning more.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
But a flaw in how X displays some links meant the full web address had been truncated to https://t.me/securelycont - an unused Telegram username.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2023
I quickly type in the web address for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms that’s listed on the board.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
Rather than hosting its copy of Coinbase directly on conibase.com, visitors to that site were redirected to yet another nearly identical Web address.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
The little padlock next to a Web address indicates the connection is encrypted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2015
And because the co-opted site retains the official Web address of the real journal, how can you tell it’s fake?
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 19, 2015
No one asked why, if they found it so offensive, students opened the link, with its unmistakable Web address, and watched the video long enough to know what it contained.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2015
As soon as it does, I type in the Web address, not even bothering to check my e-mail first.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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