How to Use IP address in a Sentence

IP address

noun
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  • Keep in mind that using a third-party proxy will share your IP address with the proxy provider.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The public IP address couldn’t be traced from there, as the user had been assigned to free apartment Wi-Fi.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
  • As of Tuesday, its website’s server IP address could no longer be found.
    — Angela Yang, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Find your router’s IP address and enter it into your web browser.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2023
  • According to the police report, the website received the request from a computer with the same IP address as the one owned by Paez, per Newsweek.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
  • For instance, if your IP address has a track record of low spam complaints or bounce rates, then that will make your message sending IP more trustworthy.
    — Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The user's original IP address is concealed, replaced by a unique one linked to their device on the local network.
    — Advertising Content From Smartproxy, PCMAG, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Zhang allegedly used the same IP address to open the fraudulent bank accounts and to deposit counterfeit checks.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This is a private IP address some internet service providers use as a gateway to access their routers’ settings.
    — Whitson Gordon, Popular Science, 31 May 2023
  • Police then traced the call to an IP address in Pennsylvania and identified the caller with the help of law enforcement in Pennsylvania.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Some companies are even tracking employee IP addresses and buying chairs with weight sensors to make sure employees are in the office.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • And users are also discussing options to bypass the legislation, such as buying a virtual private network to get a fresh IP address.
    — Diana Li, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2023
  • People who want to know if they’ve been infected can check the Check Point post’s indicators of compromise section, which lists file hashes, IP addresses, and domains used by the malware.
    — Ryan Waniata, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Major social media platforms in China require users to show their IP address location.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Plaid’s software noticed that multiple users had similar IP addresses, raising a red flag.
    — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Much like people, who build a reputation over time for being professional and acting in a good, humane way, IP addresses also have a history which mailbox providers like to keep track of.
    — Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The transfers from the bank account were made from devices and IP addresses associated with Mizuhara, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The transfers from the bank account were made from devices and IP addresses associated with Mizuhara, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
    — Andrew Blankstein, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • An IP address from the presidential palace was used to print the cards, which asserted that Bolsonaro, who spent years inveighing against the coronavirus vaccine and swore off ever receiving one, had been vaccinated against covid-19.
    — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
  • According to the filing, Jared Ferguson’s account was emptied mere hours after being accessed by a new device and from an IP address that had never been associated with his account.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Crypto, 9 Mar. 2023
  • One bill would prohibit the use of bots to purchase tickets in bulk, as well as creating multiple email and IP addresses to purchase tickets and circumvent online queues or security measures.
    — The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The emails instead had hidden tracking links that when clicked on enabled the hackers to gain location data, IP addresses and other identifying information.
    — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The tip included the email address and IP address of an account in Pewaukee, accused of uploading child pornography, the news station reported, sparking an investigation.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Prosecutors typically request information like names, email addresses or IP addresses from the tech giants to help track down users.
    — Max Hoppenstedt, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The records provided by the companies confirmed that a user had logged into both accounts using the same residential IP address in Lancaster California, court documents say.
    — Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2024
  • This network allows users to communicate anonymously and make calls that bounce between multiple IP addresses, according to Turgal.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • With some exceptions, the IP address (a network address) in a data packet is sufficient to ensure that packet can be delivered anywhere on the Internet by a sequence of other routers operated by service providers and carriers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Microsoft has previously tapped civil orders to seize domains and IP addresses associated with specific malware, but Friday's court order marks the first time the tech leader has sought to take down a malicious hacking tool on this scale.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Those behind the scheme were selling access to residential networks commercially, the company’s report says, claiming to have access to more than 10 million home IP addresses and 7 million mobile IP addresses.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • During the police investigation, Felix was an alias associated with an IP address linked to Cadenhead.
    — Ali Winston, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024

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