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program

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


NOUN
performance in medium
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NOUN
instructions for a computer
Synonyms


VERB
to create software
Synonyms


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To help meet its needs, FlyDubai set up a program last year to train pilots from scratch and operates its own flight training center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The Vietnam War provided the humiliation that converted that insight into a weapons program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Should a player who transfers and has superior talent immediately get to start over a player who has been in the program for three years busting his butt?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

“The holy grail is a tick vaccine,” Lea Hamner, an epidemiologist with a tick-focused program on the island, told an anxious crowd at one of the many public meetings focused on ticks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

But then her recovery program activated, and soon she was back to her normal self.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Staff were told there would be changes to funding for the fiscal year that had just started and the programs it ran, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

L.A. voting rights groups rally to recruit poll watchers, launch protection programs, and counter potential election disruption in the November vote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The office will also oversee the Armed Forces Chaplains Board and advocate for funding for religious programs across the military.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

If acted upon, these MPs’ recommendations could influence future investment in community exercise programs and support services.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

There had been so much counseling, so many treatment programs, so much rehabilitation to be done.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

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

“That tells you that it really is more about cultural connection. It is about a nuance that is present in culturally programed content,” de Armas said.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2022

He explains how he would make dishes, and the robot would be programed to copy his movement.

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2021

While it’s hard to know if this effort was coordinated, either one individual or several individuals appear to have programed numerous bots to help seed the conspiracy theory on Twitter.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2018

Each one contains their person's medical needs and individual calendar and is programmed to tell users when it's time to eat or play bingo or watch their favourite television show.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Godrich notes proudly that “the way the record was made was completely mechanical,” meaning nothing was programmed on a computer but instead recorded “live on the fly” using older equipment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

They did what humans programmed them to do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Unlike the 2019 GPT-2 paper, this fearmongering has broken through in a remarkable way, prompting the public to panic over stories about programmed “agents” from the aforementioned firms hacking into other companies’ infrastructure.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

Halliday programmed new versions of Anorak’s Quest for the Atari 800XL, Apple II, and Commodore 64 computers, and Morrow began placing ads for the game in the back of several computer magazines.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

In our “Digital Readiness” program, we’re collaborating in over 28 countries with more than 100 public-private partnerships to bring AI awareness programing around the world.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024

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

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

Earlier this week, Ellison picked HBO and HBO Max content chief Casey Bloys to oversee the streaming programming strategy of the combined company, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The MPs' report said the BBC could "spend more wisely when competing for programming".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Notice how similar the programming instructions are for computers, systems and people.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Revisiting English-only programming in Head Start may ultimately exacerbate those same problems, Garcia Bedolla said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Sasha was the brilliant one, the one who blazed through calculus, linguistics, physics, and computer programming with a kind of effortlessness.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater




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