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Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative spelling of cyber- quotations examples
I pointed out to him we have significant cyber capability and he knows it. He doesn’t know exactly what it is, but it’s significant. And if in fact they violate these basic norms, we will respond cyberly. He knows. In a cyber way.
2021, Charles P. Pierce, “Vladimir Putin Is a King Bullshit Artist,” Esquire, June 17 [quoting Joe Biden]
(informal) Cybergoth. quotations examples
She is a high priestess of the Church of the SubGenius, a devotee of the music of Tom Waits and Robert Smith, and of goth and cyber subcultures.
1998, Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines, Gothic: four hundred years of excess, horror, evil, and ruin
...a cross between metal, punk, goth, cyber, and rock.
2007, Tiffany Godoy, Ivan Vartanian, Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion, Tokyo
No CyberGoth is complete without gigantic "stompy" platform boots and the optional toy ray gun. Some are even more anachronistic in that they incorporate old Renaissance and Victorian styles into their much-loved cyber wear.
2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture
third-person singular simple present cybers, present participle cybering, simple past and past participle cybered
(slang) To engage in cybersex.
(singular only) Everything having to do with the Internet considered collectively. quotations examples
These prefigure the more complex aspects of virtual and real interactions which the cyber will deliver to us in these early years of the new millennium.
2004, Henry Linger, Julie Fisher, W. Gregory Wojtkowski, Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice
The pace and extent to which the cyber is transforming our world increases daily.
2012, Sean Swan (Ed), On the Cyber
Cybersecurity. quotations examples
Is there an escalatory ladder in cyber, the same as with weapons of mass destruction? Fleming doesn't like the comparison with nuclear deterrence but says that Russia is indeed conscious of escalation risk.
2023 May 28, Roula Khalaf, “Lunch with the FT: Jeremy Fleming”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3