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input

[in-poot] / ˈɪnˌpʊt /




NOUN
intake
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State Historic Park, wipe out dozens of trees and trample a space that was carefully designed with years of community input.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

Canada Nickel plans an open-pit mine with the capacity to produce roughly 240,000 metric tons of ore a day and mill with input capacity of 120,000 tons daily, all operating for about 41 years.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Apple’s “economics are under pressure owing to structurally rising input costs and supply-chain constraints, neither of which will improve in the near term, we believe,” she wrote in a Friday note.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

"My fear is that if we didn't give them something like Cyber Choices, where would they get that input and where would that input take them?"

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

The Chicago admissions office would not be looking for input from the press office or, for that matter, from a magazine writer.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Capital and labor are the two fundamental inputs into an economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Results were also dented by reduced international refining runs because of a 10 percent drop in crude oil inputs.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

But it can falter when human inputs are too limited or vague.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

That’s partially the consequence of blockages of the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial thoroughfare not only for middle eastern oil, but also for such industrial inputs as fertilizer and aluminum.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

I give her my email and she inputs it into her phone.

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

If the CPA was using software, it’s pretty hard to get it wrong — unless he inputted the correct numbers.

From MarketWatch Mar. 27, 2026

Employees who previously inputted orders are now focused on collecting receivables, Singh said.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

They then inputted these charge values into computational models to mathematically predict how strong the electric field would be when a wasp approaches a caterpillar on a plant.

From Science Daily May 24, 2024

Mrs Reid said she was alerted to the BMI error in July 2021 during a phone call with one of the surgery doctors, who suggested her son's weight may have been incorrectly inputted.

From BBC May 9, 2024

Images, data, and simulations are part of the work and part of the shared knowledge, already available in formats that can be inputted for further work or can be technologically tested.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

If necessary, redo your taxes yourself, inputting the correct data.

From MarketWatch Mar. 27, 2026

In partnership with Google’s Gemini AI, the phone will take care of opening the Uber app, inputting the address and finding a driver.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 25, 2026

One of AI’s most significant contributions so far is extracting data from standard common tax forms such as W-2s and 1099s and inputting it into tax returns.

From Barron's Jan. 31, 2026

Galea built on these findings, inputting the layout of The Station club into a computer simulator he created which predicts how fires spread.

From BBC Jan. 17, 2026

Only when the series of equations had been sufficiently reduced would she start the process of inputting values and coming up with numbers using the calculating machines.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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