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program

[proh-gram, -gruhm] / ˈproʊ græm, -grəm /


NOUN
performance in medium
Synonyms


NOUN
instructions for a computer
Synonyms


VERB
to create software
Synonyms


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“Our lawmakers strengthened California’s film and TV jobs program last year and will keep fighting for creative industry workers,” Miller said in an email.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Already, tens of thousands of jobs have come back to Southern California due to the modernization of the film and TV tax credit program, he said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Meta previously doled out roughly $94 million through a prior community grant program.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Aggressive self-help measures, including a 23 billion Swedish kronor cost-reduction program, are being heavily diluted by rising structural costs, raw material inflation, and low capacity utilization.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

“You could still write about the neighborhood composting program for your college application essay,” I offer.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Major American research universities admitted 15% fewer students to Ph.D. programs this fall compared with a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Texas Instruments teamed up with math educators and textbook publishers to create an ecosystem for teacher training programs and instruction materials that would seamlessly standardize TI across American classrooms.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

“Over the last several decades there’s been a push among doctors and researchers to improve detection of balance impairment and falls prevention, with many multifaceted programs available to help improve balance, strength, flexibility and coordination.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

People who run service orgs with low budgets and benefited for years from Microsoft’s programs no longer have much of the technology they need to keep things going—for either the short or long term.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, which opposed police brutality and engaged in political and social programs in big cities, was founded that year too.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

“They do have to be ready to perform, for instance, if a train is not stopping when it’s programed to stop,” Mayer told commissioners.

From Washington Post Mar. 7, 2023

Dr. Zwiebel said, “These are stereotypic programed behaviors that have evolved because they work.”

From New York Times Oct. 4, 2022

Thirty years ago, we might have hailed as rare and consequential any dozen weeks in which music by a mere handful of living composers was programed as the regular course of a classical music season.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 28, 2022

Co-founder and chief executive Philippe Goldman says the robots have been programed to maintain top quality control.

From BBC Dec. 19, 2021

We’re talking about a system that has to be programed sequentially and that can only do one thing at a time.

From Slate Aug. 2, 2021

Waymo vehicles are also programmed to pull over at the sight of a cop car’s lights, and they offer a means to speak with a human representative of their companies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

In effect, it allows heat to be programmed in a way that resembles how data is stored and controlled inside a computer chip.

From Science Daily Jul. 7, 2026

"But the robots are friendly, they're polite and they're programmed to be careful. They've slotted into everyday life in loads of communities since we started out in the UK back in 2018."

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

Hyodol can converse using ChatGPT, but is also programmed with scripts based on Kim's real-life interviews.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

By the time they actually blasted off, my calculations had long been completed and the now-reliable electronic computers—some programmed with my computations—had taken over.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

More Spheres would be bullish for the company because of royalty and other income, as well as the ability to distribute original programing in multiple locations.

From Barron's Oct. 16, 2025

Non-routine cognitive jobs include public relations and computer programing.

From Science Daily Apr. 17, 2024

Indeed, Kunst’s submission to the 2018 CRC points to this TV programing note in the Miami News for channel 10’s Florida Journal on Oct.

From Slate Jan. 18, 2024

MTV then started adding more hip-hop to its music programing “and suddenly there’s a whole new audience.”

From New York Times May 11, 2023

Remedies for alteration of programing by cable systems.

From Copyright Law of the United States of America: contained in Title 17 of the United States Code. by United States

Computer programming, advertising and the pharmaceutical industry were areas of strength, the ONS said.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Within services, computer programming was also strong, the ONS’s McKeown said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

In the past, North Korean missiles have flown over Japan, triggering sirens, smartphone alerts and special programming on television.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

His programming is a kind of wish-list of the new and recent with newly-buffed chestnuts, and it’s worked.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Would the Lakeside computer club, Rona wondered, like to test out the company’s software programs on the weekends in exchange for free programming time?

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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