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processor

[pros-es-er, proh-ses-] / ˈprɒs ɛs ər, ˈproʊ sɛs- /


NOUN
central processing unit
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The project has received 40 million processor hours on the UK's national supercomputers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

They also challenged the processor with videos produced using Google's VEO-3 model.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Hormel Foods has agreed to acquire Brakebush Brothers, a family-owned value-added chicken processor, for about $1.055 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Entry-level roles in fields heavily exposed to AI, like software developers and customer-service representatives, are shrinking the most, data from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and payroll processor ADP Research show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

But if the Stormbreakers were based on the round processor there couldn’t possibly be any need for such extremes—and anyway, this was like nothing Alex had ever seen before.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

Its suppliers receive orders for processors, networking, power systems and cooling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

The EU wants to ramp up its capacity and is pouring billions into so-called AI gigafactories made up of advanced AI processors and energy-efficient data centres for companies and research labs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Rising ingredient prices have pinched Pepsi and other food processors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The processors can be “bought in the secondary market at a spot price, and are also made by Chinese companies,” Luria noted.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

But even the best software isn’t smart enough to assign trees reliably, so writers cannot offload the task of minding the tree onto their word processors.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker


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