Examples of LAN in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Also, an additional $8 million settlement with the engineering firm LAN, which is awaiting final approval, will add to the overall size of the fund. Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2024 The move to bring in s1mple on loan for a month means that the organisation will have a full roster for the upcoming BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown tournament that offers up a spot at the massive LAN event set for Wembley Arena in London later in the year. Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024 The class action was originally launched in 2016, after plaintiffs said Veolia and another engineering firm that worked in Flint after the onset of the water crisis, Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam (LAN), failed to identify corroding pipes and acted too slowly to address the water contamination. Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2024 Any switch, router, or wireless LAN controller running IOS XE that has the HTTP or HTTPS Server feature enabled and exposed to the Internet is vulnerable. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023 As the developers would find out 12 years later, when releasing Diablo III, the fans had a very specific idea of what the franchise was supposed to be, and anyone who’s ever spent time at an internet café or toiled away at an overnight LAN party knows, these fans take it very seriously. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of LAN was in 1981

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“LAN.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/LAN. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

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