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input

[in-poot] / ˈɪnˌpʊt /




NOUN
intake
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"We are not claiming to have seen dark matter. But we have seen something interesting that we want to share with the scientific community for their input."

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

The union said the DMV approved heavy-duty driverless vehicles without considering impact or public input.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

The presidential commission focused on the space academy, led by NASA’s administrator, will also include input from high-ranking government leaders or their representatives, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the secretary of the Air Force.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Stone said during the Carrington Event, "even telegraph wires were heard to hum and crackle, and they were able to run the telegraph poles without any electricity because the input was so high".

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

I input his name again and do an image search.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

For LLMs to process images and audio, they have to be trained on that media directly, turning the inputs into tokens as they do with words.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Eliza can also store inputs and refer to them later.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Such systems can evaluate multiple inputs at once while making decisions informed by previous experiences and future priorities.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

The company’s switches, routers and other networking solutions have become critical inputs in data-center server racks.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

The IBM machines used the inputs they received to make calculations based on the orbit determination programs.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

You can check your tax returns by making sure that the information this CPA inputted is correct; the software will do the rest.

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

It said a person's ethnicity may also be inputted into a part of the online incident recording system which is not searchable or pulled into data.

From BBC Mar. 1, 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 Mihai Nadin

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

From MarketWatch Mar. 27, 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

The Medicare online tools don’t have a “couples” setting, so each person should go through the process by inputting their information.

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2025

Dan Spoor, a 69-year-old retired aerospace executive, used to spend hours researching companies in which he’s interested in investing and inputting their financial metrics into spreadsheets.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 25, 2025

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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