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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
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"The whole program of research would not have been possible without the support and participation from the patient and family community, to whom we will always be grateful," Messing says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Watching a bad program, I was very happy to do, and watching a good program was amazing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

While the program is ostensibly aimed at helping middle-income households, buyers earning up to 200% of an area’s median income could qualify for homes costing as much as $1.5 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The research is part of UT Austin's Whole Communities -- Whole Health initiative, an interdisciplinary program that works with communities to investigate factors influencing health and well-being.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The U.S. government was evasive about exactly what had happened, saying only that “the test program included experiments contributing to thermonuclear weapons research.”

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

They also frequently have made use of home-buying programs featuring low or no down payments.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Navy leaders searched for Jones to figure out what he said that prompted the president to demand an overhaul of one of the most expensive weapons programs in history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

By building the Hammer’s audience, programs and campus, he said, Philbin left Ryan “a robust infrastructure.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

They also want better social and educational programs, as well as a reduction in the inmate population from over 6,500 to 4,000 -- driven by quicker court proceedings and transferring people to other units.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

When he heard their plight, Governor Ray’s press secretary, Ray Walters, took pity on the two programs.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

“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

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

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2021

You can control the amount of pressure by controlling how inflated the airbags are, and it can even be programed to inflate and deflate continuously.

From Slate ● May 6, 2020

Researchers found that increasing Menin helped protect cultured hippocampal cells against inflammation and a form of programmed cell death triggered by exposure to the stress hormone corticosterone.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

On the surface, it seems like harmless video game humor, and I’m sure we’ve all had encounters with actual humans that resembled interacting with tautological machines programmed with limited responses.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

Three decades on, the cutting edge of chess technology is artificial intelligence programmed to rediscover the wide world of possibilities from first principles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

He’s like, “I just can’t watch shows with commercials anymore” — as people are programmed now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I’m not driving without a license. Besides, my voice commands aren’t even programmed into the car yet. I couldn’t start it anyway.”

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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

“We have a lot more overlapping programing so when there’s something on Damrosch in the bandshell, we’ll also have something on the dance floor,” said Shanta Thake, Lincoln Center’s chief artistic officer.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 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

Pete is programming them to repeatedly fly exactly the same routes over the damaged landscape.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The developer decided to make his own programming language, Jai, from scratch.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

For Amazon, the arrangement continues the e-retailer’s expansion into live programming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

My department worked on free public programming, on creative equity, on cross-sector community development and on measuring the social impact of art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

They’re both anxious to get here and see the device for themselves, so while we wait, Mrs. V suggests that we just keep programming it, adding more and more.

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper




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