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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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It disallowed him from flying, made him take a deradicalization program and gave him an administrative job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“The holy grail is a tick vaccine,” Lea Hamner, an epidemiologist with a tick-focused program on the island, told an anxious crowd at one of the many public meetings focused on ticks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Any coach who says “I don’t want to know” where a transfer lives to escape accountability might want to start realizing an entire program can go down when they abdicate responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Hammami was sent through a deradicalization program and given a desk job, but later found his way to a new job in the United Arab Emirates, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The man at the microphone began talking excitedly about what a great turnout they had, what a great program they had planned, how well the county department of social services worked .

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Its programs involve years of investment in a child to get them into college with tutoring, campus tours and summer programs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

L.A. voting rights groups rally to recruit poll watchers, launch protection programs, and counter potential election disruption in the November vote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The office will also oversee the Armed Forces Chaplains Board and advocate for funding for religious programs across the military.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

If acted upon, these MPs’ recommendations could influence future investment in community exercise programs and support services.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

When he heard their plight, Governor Ray’s press secretary, Ray Walters, took pity on the two programs.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Thirty years ago, we might have hailed as rare and consequential any dozen weeks in which music by a mere handful of living composers was programed as the regular course of a classical music season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2022

Spain's biggest lender accidentally made a second payment Saturday to about 75,000 people and firms due for one-off or programed payments from 2,000 businesses with accounts at its U.K. unit.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021

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

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2021

You can control the amount of pressure by controlling how inflated the airbags are, and it can even be programed to inflate and deflate continuously.

From Slate ● May 6, 2020

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

During our visit, Robert - who is programmed to be friendly -repeatedly asked Vera how she was, reassuring her "I'll be here if you need me".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Building on earlier work, including a program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Stanford programmed the monitors with time delays and conditional triggers so that some monitor readings didn’t automatically set off an alarm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

He’s like, “I just can’t watch shows with commercials anymore” — as people are programmed now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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

Mostly she programmed the computer models; she didn’t know what made it work.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

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

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

MTV then started adding more hip-hop to its music programing “and suddenly there’s a whole new audience.”

From New York Times ● May 11, 2023

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

Earlier this week, Ellison picked HBO and HBO Max content chief Casey Bloys to oversee the streaming programming strategy of the combined company, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The MPs' report said the BBC could "spend more wisely when competing for programming".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Ellison months ago made a public commitment to protect HBO, which has long been a leader in prestige TV programming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Notice how similar the programming instructions are for computers, systems and people.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Kids were now accessing television programming on computers—including phones, the Internet, and other gadgets.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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