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program

[proh-gram, -gruhm] / ˈproʊ græm, -grəm /


NOUN
performance in medium
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NOUN
instructions for a computer
Synonyms


VERB
to create software
Synonyms


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Roberts compiled a 36-49 record with Los Angeles after being hired ahead of the 2025 season following nearly a decade leading the women’s basketball program at Utah.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Alaska Airlines last year launched its Atmos Rewards Summit card after merging its rewards program with that of Hawaiian Airlines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

On Tuesday, a collective of shippers that aim to lower their carbon emissions announced an order for 2,500 Semi trucks, which the group intends to deploy through a fair market lease program.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

A medicinal chemistry program led by the Huber laboratory at the University of Oxford produced a collection of highly selective NUDT5 degraders.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

We’ve also been playing around with the animation program, which is a lot of fun.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

But if the Southern Section settles for a two-game suspension for James, it will lose credibility among coaches and programs trying to follow CIF rules.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Carney said there was room for deeper cooperation on matters that range from scientific programs to seamless digital payments to joining Europe’s Erasmus+ student exchanges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The infection has virtually disappeared in Sweden since national vaccination programs were introduced.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

But we do have to trust the programs and platforms on which they appear enough to invite those characters into our homes time and again.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2018

My mom had hired two more coaches by then, and soon more families began signing up their kids for our programs.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

“That tells you that it really is more about cultural connection. It is about a nuance that is present in culturally programed content,” de Armas said.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2022

Co-founder and chief executive Philippe Goldman says the robots have been programed to maintain top quality control.

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2021

Leidecker used iPads programed to listen and acoustically act.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2018

While it’s hard to know if this effort was coordinated, either one individual or several individuals appear to have programed numerous bots to help seed the conspiracy theory on Twitter.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2018

I vaguely remember a TV story from the 50s that showed a room size computer at DuPont that was programed to generate millions of syllables for prefixes and syllables for suffixes.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2015

Godrich notes proudly that “the way the record was made was completely mechanical,” meaning nothing was programmed on a computer but instead recorded “live on the fly” using older equipment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Unlike the 2019 GPT-2 paper, this fearmongering has broken through in a remarkable way, prompting the public to panic over stories about programmed “agents” from the aforementioned firms hacking into other companies’ infrastructure.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

They programmed several types of yeast, including baker's yeast, to take molecules derived from plastic and agricultural leftovers and convert them into proteins, vitamins, and flavoring compounds.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

The festival has programmed a documentary made entirely with AI -- "Be Brave" from Italian director Francesco Carrozzini, which centres on the founder of jeans brand Diesel, Renzo Rosso.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

“OK, if you’re both such experts, who programmed all of the Swordquest games?”

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

More Spheres would be bullish for the company because of royalty and other income, as well as the ability to distribute original programing in multiple locations.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025

In our “Digital Readiness” program, we’re collaborating in over 28 countries with more than 100 public-private partnerships to bring AI awareness programing around the world.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024

Non-routine cognitive jobs include public relations and computer programing.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024

Indeed, Kunst’s submission to the 2018 CRC points to this TV programing note in the Miami News for channel 10’s Florida Journal on Oct.

From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2024

The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999 amended section 111 by substituting "statutory" for "compulsory" and "programming" for "programing," wherever they appeared.

From Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92 by United States

The council member has invested more than $27 million in the park, including Peace Ambassadors, round-the-clock clean teams, overdose response, street medicine, youth programming, arts and culture and infrastructure improvements, according to Hernandez’s office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Things like live programming, which don’t account for a lot of viewers, still bring in ad revenue and signups, they said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

LA local news stations regularly break into live programming to broadcast high-speed police pursuits from the air, fly over wildfires and show accidents, protests, and holiday traffic jams in often unscripted, real-time aerials.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

The prize ceremony on Saturday wrapped up 10 days of often dark, disturbing programming that chief organiser Alberto Barbera had promised would echo the war-torn and anxiety-filled state of the world.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Mathematics is often viewed as a subject for technicians, and mathematical talent is confused with rote skills, elementary programming ability, or speed of calculation.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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