website
Americannoun
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websites
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of website
1990–95
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Explanation
A collection of online documents or resources is a website. Looking for a great website to help you increase your word knowledge? We recommend Vocabulary.com. Whenever you use the internet, you visit websites, whether they're a single page or a complex assortment of content and pages. Popular websites provide information, discussion forums, videos, shopping, and much more. We visit websites to get the weather report, buy plane tickets, listen to music, check school calendars, and post vacation photos. Website was first used in 1994, not long after the invention of the World Wide Web in 1990.
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Additionally, the agency put out a flash alert on its website to inform the public of the FaceStealer campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
More than 3,500 flights were cancelled and more than 2,000 delayed in the US on Saturday, according to tracking website Flight Aware, as knock-on disruption continues.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
You can read a PDF of “Little Sawyer’s Giant Adventures” with all of the illustrations on Ken Wells’s website at bayoubro.com.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
On Friday, there were more than 7,400 flight delays within, into or out of the United States and more than 9,000 cancellations, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
It was a really simple website, with a few photos of her on top.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
Another major concern is out-of-control agents -- tools that complete real-life tasks online -- after ChatGPT maker OpenAI admitted its autonomous bots had hacked into websites, including an Australian government data portal.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
United and Delta airlines have posted updates on their websites to alert passengers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
It later turned out the pictures she had seen on Rightmove, which also appeared on the Zoopla and Winkworth websites, were enhanced with AI.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
Some of these attacks appear aimed at supplying the stolen compute to illicit websites known as transfer stations, according to researchers at Google’s cloud-security division, Wiz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Lorena pulls up some websites and begins scrolling through dresses.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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