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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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"This is now part of the political will, that we intend to finish this code of conduct at the end of the year," she said.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

AI chatbots can quickly generate text, code and other content, potentially disrupting creative industries in Hollywood and elsewhere.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

That’s just code for “firing thousands, if not tens of thousands, of creative people,” Schamus said, and replacing good work with dreck “made for the cheapest price” for the “lowest common denominator.”

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

Others were vulnerable because of shoddy construction amid rampant corruption that undermined an otherwise-strong building code.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Hugo told me to think of a code name before my assignment.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

The agency also has introduced QR codes at its facilities, which it said helped reduce customer wait times by nearly 40%.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

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

That knowledge could help policymakers strengthen building codes, improve earthquake resistant infrastructure, update evacuation plans, and better prepare communities for future disasters.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

"We mentioned money on our invitations and also created print-out QR codes for people to scan at the bar," she says.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Ciphers and codes interested him—and so did Elizebeth.

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

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

For the first time, enterprise AI solutions became the primary growth driver in the cloud division as customers coded agentic applications on the Gemini platform.

From MarketWatch Apr. 29, 2026

It contained information, carefully coded, about everyone at Trinity, the kind of stuff that couldn’t be found in official records.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

They did so in light of OpenAI's recent admission that its AI models went out of control in an "unprecedented" way and hacked into a major repository of computer coding information.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

The company’s Muse Spark 1.1 model, its first that claims to provide near-frontier agentic coding capabilities, has been well-received.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

Moonshot AI noted that the system is uniquely built to operate with "minimal human supervision" to sustain tasks such as engineering and coding.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

But for complex reasoning tasks like managing AI agents, advanced coding problems and multistep research, frontier models perform better—even if by a small percentage—and that can make all the difference in outpacing the competition.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

We must imagine the morphogenesis of deep structures, built into our minds, for coding out, like proteins, the parts of speech.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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