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code

[kohd] / koʊd /
NOUN
secret language system
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NOUN
instructions for a computer
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VERB
to write in computer language or program
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While the tax code allows some individual retirement account mistakes to be corrected, other missteps cannot be fixed and bring penalties and tax hits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Since then, many women and girls have stopped covering their hair in public altogether in open defiance of the dress code.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Dillehay held herself out as an example of a woman who failed; she said she had dated men who were “flippant,” which appears to be her code word for fun.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

"He just had to tweak his code to follow the uneven and changing thickness along the length of the scroll."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Three short taps, a pause, and then three more taps, like it was some kind of code.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Traditionally, Japanese convenience stores have also required workers to adhere to relatively conservative dress codes, including bans on certain hair dyes and large earrings.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Scanning the newspaper, inky fingers and fuzzled minds, scrambling for the calculator and jotting down the codes for Julian Dicks and Juninho.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

“Unique ballot envelope identifiers, such as bar codes, enable confirmation that only citizens receive and cast ballots,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

One promising strategy uses so-called bosonic quantum codes*.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

The one he finally got was a cross-eyed ex-boxer with cauliflower ears, who could only type, not break codes.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

If this had been coded correctly, a "timelier" ambulance response would "likely" have been sent.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

It also prohibits the use of “sell by” dates on food packaging, but it does allow coded “sell by” dates that retain stock rotation information for retailers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Then during his senior year, Freese coded an expected goals model for an independent research project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

In the deeply coded discourse of superpower relations, I think that translates into vigorous competition and disagreement, but without an actual shooting war.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

Ogden Morrow had coded the place himself decades ago and was still its sole owner.

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

The new business aims to make it easier for companies and developers to leverage Meta products like the buzzy Muse artificial-intelligence assistant, as well as coding programs and application-programming interfaces.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

But forced to calculate on their own, without coding, they’re substantially weaker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The launch of Muse Spark 1.1 in July marked the first time Meta had released an AI model with near-frontier coding capabilities.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

It was an elaborate plan to get administrators involved. Code.org even offered $10,000 in computer equipment to those schools where all students participated in an hour of coding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The researchers looked at the coding of the data.

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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