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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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His code name was Lawful, and Ted did want to prove that he couldn’t be defeated.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Visit slate.com/amicusplus and use the promo code AMICUS50 to receive the discount AND get access wherever you listen.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

H100 is a somewhat newer chip released in 2022 that is optimized to handle large language models creating text, computer code, images, video and audio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Some 25 allegations have been received by the Local Government Commissioner for Standards in Northern Ireland in recent days concerning potential breaches of the councillors' code of conduct.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

I punch in the code that opens the garage door and we begin our inspection.

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

The Pentagon this year condensed more than 200 religious affiliation codes to 31, initially eliminating specific classifications for atheists, Unitarian Universalists, pagans and Wiccans, among others.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

But some command codes require only a last name, and that approach can bypass IRS detection, the report said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

This regulator would be able to set codes of practice, such as standards of conduct and proper complaint handling for those they regulate, and property agents will be required to obtain a licence.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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

It’s not clear, but perhaps she was thinking about Japanese naval codes.

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

For another, Formula 1 and soccer, sports frequently coded as elite and coastal, are experiencing booms of popularity across the country.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

As Thaler and Johnson wrote: “Until the winnings are completely depleted, losses are coded as reductions in a gain, as if losing some of ‘their money’ doesn’t hurt as much as losing one’s own cash.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

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

Bill was coded as defensive, as it turned out, for forty of the first sixty-six seconds of their conversation.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

It’s the tech that’s powering its creepy glasses, its open-source coding model, and now its bid into the battle of personal agents that will basically turn the experience of scrolling online into a water slide.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

The effort will unite sales of existing tools, including Muse, access to Meta’s top models, a coding tool and agents for businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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

Everybody is looking at obvious places like coding.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 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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