process
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What are other ways to say process?
A process is a series of progressive and interdependent steps by which an end is attained: a chemical process. Procedure usually implies a formal or set order of doing a thing, a method of conducting affairs: parliamentary procedure. Proceeding (usually plural) applies to what goes on or takes place on a given occasion or to the records of the occasion: proceedings of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
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Their preliminary calculation highlights the potentially enormous scale of the process.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
"It does not generate new scenes or performances, alter actors' faces or likenesses, or use synthetic voices," he said, adding that a human editor would be "reviewing and approving every stage of the editing process".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
None of the buzzy peptides have gone through the FDA approval process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The Times has answers to last-minute questions about the voting process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
It surprised him enough that he jumped out of his seat to greet her, bumping the table and spilling some of his juice in the process.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
"We take the feedback we have received regarding this incident very seriously. Moving forward, we will strengthen our review processes for all future collaborative projects."
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
This distinction suggests that sauna bathing may influence different parts of the immune system through different physiological processes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
Even a system that processes more orders per hour may disappoint financially if its installation costs too much or demand leaves it underused.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
"When you factor in key physical processes and calibrate against historical observations, you gain a reliable pathway for narrowing uncertainty in projections," Poinelli said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
The plant where Gold worked, Black explained, used cutting-edge processes to produce many useful chemicals.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
The plant is highly automated, but workers still have to remove items that cannot be processed and regularly inspect waste to check what is being sent for recycling.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
In August, more than half of the text it handled was processed by open models, up from 13 percent in April.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Visa reported a higher profit and growing revenue in the fiscal fourth quarter boosted by an increase in payment volumes and processed transactions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
As a model processed one of the zones, researchers added specific mathematical signals mimicking negative states.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
His brain hasn’t processed what’s happened; the pain hasn’t set in.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Google has been working on its tensor processing units for more than a decade and uses them to run things from its search-engine algorithms to its Gemini AI models.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Saudi authorities haven’t confirmed the claimed strike or any damage to the refinery, which has a processing capacity of 550,000 barrels a day and is located at one of the kingdom’s main crude-export hubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
A law passed in 2023 prohibits small-business lenders from tacking on certain fees, including a fee for processing a payment on the loan or advance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
A few weeks later, Dole announced it was expanding its vegetable processing plant.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
The poultry processing plant where she worked was in the next town, about an hour from our house.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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