web pal

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noun

informal a person one meets and corresponds with over the internet

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webmail, webmaster, web member, webmistress, web page, web pal, web press, web publisher, web scraping, web server, website

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How to use web pal in a sentence

He was referring to web censorship behind the Great Firewall.
China’s Internet Is Freer Than You Think|Brendon Hong|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And back in February, he lost a close pal in Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange|Marlow Stern|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With its vast web of resources and services, including its support groups, the Center has often helped save these people lives.
The LGBT Center That Changed Our Lives|Justin Jones|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Grant's pal Howard Hughes offered to fly them back to Los Angeles in his private plane.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

How has your experience been shaped by digital encounters and the social web?
The Unbearable Whiteness of Protesting|Rawiya Kameir, Judnick Mayard|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was no wonder that he felt quite at home in the duck-pond, which was made for web-footed folk.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
With horror she had heard her brother addressed by a disreputable costermonger in a mangy fur cap, as "Old pal."
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
But she was an exquisitely pretty and engaging little thing, a grand little pal, and worth cultivating.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
If I felt that I could leave her in your charge, all on the square, as a real straight pal—I should go away happy.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
"It is n't distressingly calm now," said the extra-strong frames—they were called web-frames—in the engine-room.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling