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[doun-lohd] / ˈdaʊnˌloʊd /


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Scammers will ask you to provide or verify personal information, account login details or two-factor authentication codes, transfer money to them or download malicious software, it says.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

There will be a box at some stores, yes, but it contains a download code, not a disc.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

Many leading Chinese models are open-source, meaning anyone around the globe can download them without charge and generally use them with few restrictions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

The French company develops so-called open models, which allow users to download and modify them.

From Barron's Jul. 7, 2026

You could download the sessions if you had a password, which was not hard to get if you knew what you were doing.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

In May, the number of downloads was about 59,729.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Some downloads, it says, were coordinated among several Meta IP addresses, all based on the same algorithmic keywords and occurring simultaneously, suggesting that the infringements “took place within Meta’s walls.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

We evaluated streaming performance and P2P behavior by running downloads and streaming concurrently to observe throttling and buffering.

From Salon Jun. 10, 2026

"She has her bunk and I have my bunk, she's got her headphone and downloads movies and things."

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

Now sitting in my downloads, blinking at me.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

It has been downloaded more than a billion times across iOS and Android devices, with millions still logging on each day.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Digital tickets must be downloaded and activated before boarding the train to be valid.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

That means it can be downloaded and run on hardware operated by anybody and can be modified and used without supervision.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

Today, “Monopoly Go!” brings in more than $2 billion in annual revenue and has been downloaded across the globe more than 300 million times.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2026

A faint ding rings out, alerting me that I’ve just downloaded something into my account.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

It also argued that customers were in no way forced to use its products on Android and that downloading competing apps was just a tap away.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

After years of downloading meditation apps and consistently ignoring their notifications, I might even succeed at meditating.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

The practice was pioneered by the Recording Industry Assn. of America, when the industry feared that unauthorized downloading of music through programs such as Napster threatened its very existence.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

Recently, both Amazon’s and Google’s TV apparatuses have cracked down on sideloading—the practice of downloading apps from third-party providers—by exclusively permitting downloads from their parent companies’ authorized app stores.

From Slate May 3, 2026

Why spend all that time downloading a movie playing all over Chicago?

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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