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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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Any coach who says “I don’t want to know” where a transfer lives to escape accountability might want to start realizing an entire program can go down when they abdicate responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

There have been concerns among some analysts and officials in Washington about the speed and cost of the program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The payments will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, established by Congress in 2008 to fund improvements to Medicare’s fee-for-service program.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

It also said the Army had limited visibility into long-term costs of the program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

In school, I’m one of six Black kids in a specialized music program; I have hair my classmates don’t understand and a complexion that garners assumptions.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The nation’s top programs are shelling out astronomic NIL paydays to top prospects.

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

These four communities still run Spiritualist programs today.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

“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

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

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

I vaguely remember a TV story from the 50s that showed a room size computer at DuPont that was programed to generate millions of syllables for prefixes and syllables for suffixes.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2015

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

Building on earlier work, including a program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Stanford programmed the monitors with time delays and conditional triggers so that some monitor readings didn’t automatically set off an alarm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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

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 old King Acererak with some pretty wicked AI, didn’t he? He’s insanely hard to beat.”

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

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

The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999 amended section 111 by substituting "statutory" for "compulsory" and "programming" for "programing," wherever they appeared.

From Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92 by United States

In addition, HBO Chairman Casey Bloys is widely expected to become head of the merged company’s streaming programming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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

Most of the 1,500 entry-level U.S. new hires at Cognizant, the technology services and consulting firm, must start at boot camp, where they learn and practice foundational skills of programming and data structures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The school didn’t have its students learn programming by the laborious computer-card system, like virtually everyone else was doing in the 1960s.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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