provider
noun
pro·vid·er
prə-ˈvī-dər 
: one that provides
health-care providers
an Internet provider
especially
: breadwinner
Examples of provider in a Sentence
She works hard and is a good provider.
He is the sole provider for his family.
Recent Examples on the Web
The exact cost of the procedure is somewhat variable, though Greco says patients should be suspicious of any provider whose price generally seems too good to be true.
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Rachel Treisman, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
In turn, all three of the world’s biggest cloud-computing providers — Microsoft, Amazon.com Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google — have become active investors in AI startups over recent years.
—Samuel Stolton, Fortune Europe, 18 Apr. 2024
Mader credits healthcare providers for the rapid acceptance of the DiskCover System.
—Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
The nationwide Change Healthcare cyberattack temporarily affected the payment process system that some hospitals, providers and pharmacies in the country use to process medical claims for payments.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
The next generation of Meta’s large language model Llama, which releases today to cloud providers like AWS and to model libraries like Hugging Face soon, performs better than most current AI models, the company said in a blog post.
—Emilia David, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
So how do more health care providers develop the skills to recognize this form of medical child abuse and report it to the appropriate authorities?
—Sarah Klein, TIME, 18 Apr. 2024
Ensure screening: Be sure your child’s health care provider has completed a standardized developmental screening at 9 months, 18 months and 30 months.
—First 5 La, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
Update: April 6, 2024, 8:30 am: This guide was updated to include new guidance for DuckDuckGo and Ghostery, as well as to bring some descriptions of browser providers' data collection policies up to date.
—David Nield, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2024
Rachel Treisman, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
In turn, all three of the world’s biggest cloud-computing providers — Microsoft, Amazon.com Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google — have become active investors in AI startups over recent years.
—Samuel Stolton, Fortune Europe, 18 Apr. 2024
Mader credits healthcare providers for the rapid acceptance of the DiskCover System.
—Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
The nationwide Change Healthcare cyberattack temporarily affected the payment process system that some hospitals, providers and pharmacies in the country use to process medical claims for payments.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
The next generation of Meta’s large language model Llama, which releases today to cloud providers like AWS and to model libraries like Hugging Face soon, performs better than most current AI models, the company said in a blog post.
—Emilia David, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
So how do more health care providers develop the skills to recognize this form of medical child abuse and report it to the appropriate authorities?
—Sarah Klein, TIME, 18 Apr. 2024
Ensure screening: Be sure your child’s health care provider has completed a standardized developmental screening at 9 months, 18 months and 30 months.
—First 5 La, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
Update: April 6, 2024, 8:30 am: This guide was updated to include new guidance for DuckDuckGo and Ghostery, as well as to bring some descriptions of browser providers' data collection policies up to date.
—David Nield, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2024
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“Provider.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provider. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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