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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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
Those links, which appear connected to the state government website, were interspersed with legitimate web address for the business services and other information provided by the secretary of state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
Warning signs include the absence of the prefix “https” or a locked padlock symbol in the web address, plus poor website designs.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 24, 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
The exploit is particularly damaging because the Web address continues to be endorsed by lists of reputable journals such as Web of Science, curated by Thomson Reuters.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 19, 2015
It also offered a Web address that I could go to and search the national vaccine network for members.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2015
I take the folded Web address out of my pocket and head into my mom’s office, where we keep the computer.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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