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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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Zuckerberg's new manifesto announced plans to share its artificial intelligence tools more openly, meaning that the design or code behind the tech will be made public, allowing anyone to view, use and change it.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

That’s code for expanding the opportunity for parents to refuse the shots for their children.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

True open-source models allow full access to training data and code, while open-weight models typically share only the numerical parameters, or “weights,” that underlie them.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

The reactions themselves are extremely ancient and are conserved across life to a degree comparable with the genetic code.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

“No. Your area code was from somewhere else. But I guess— I guess you just didn’t change your number when you moved?”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

But there is no standardized public key for deciphering them; codes vary among plants and products, and the absence of an obvious “TF” is no guarantee Taylor Farms wasn’t involved.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

Over the years, other design houses have adopted hardware as part of their codes too.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

More than 3.5 million people applied for invitation codes for early access, with some codes fetching thousands of dollars on online resale markets.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Peabody made the top of the “hottest” ZIP codes list for the first time this year.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

Even worse, it focused on the angle she most wanted to avoid—the fact that she had cracked Chinese 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

The coded way in which people are talking about this may betray something darker about our culture.

From Salon May 8, 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

He’d hang a copper wire out the window facing the courthouse, connect the homemade antenna to his shortwave radio, and exchange coded messages with Moscow.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

When he asked Anthropic’s coding tool to take a crack at the infamous Riemann hypothesis, Jarred Sumner had no idea how much progress it would make on the 167-year-old conjecture.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Zinger expressed the same sentiment in a Substack post last week, writing that Google’s AI strategy is solidifying around “prosaic matters” such as coding and search, instead of DeepMind’s original vision of chasing AGI.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

SpaceX in June agreed to acquire Cursor, an AI coding startup, in a $60 billion deal expected to close in the current quarter.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

Tencent and others are offering simplified installation and affordable coding plans to help users host OpenClaw agents on cloud servers.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

I’m a coder; I love everything to do with coding and technology.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon




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