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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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He is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and serves as associate chief of the Cardiology for Research program at the University of California, San Francisco Health.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

The summer journalism program at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, run by late L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

"I think it was too tough," Trump told the CBS News "60 Minutes" program.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

Those would be the biggest changes to Medicaid since the program began.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

They still could not go out on the streets, but here at least they had new surroundings and a program of sorts with the time I could take from the shop.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Aspiring homeowners looking at programs offered by their company should read the fine print carefully to see if the home-buying assistance program comes with strings attached.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

As a result, Gupta and Samaras had to develop equations and computer programs specifically adapted to their model for each test.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

Two classic Big Ten programs that despise each other, barely clinging to dignity, battling it out in a face-saving duel for an anthropomorphic fruit-filled pastry best served after toasting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

His comments touched on a sensitive issue in Argentina, where disability organizations and Church leaders have voiced concern over measures affecting assistance programs under Milei's austerity drive.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

His excuse was that the schedule had been set and the programs had already been printed.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

“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

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

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

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

Andy Davidson was 22 when the game he programmed, partly in his last years at Bournemouth School, first hit the shelves.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Like other quant firms, Two Sigma programmed its computers to sift through oceans of stock prices and other data to find patterns that helped predict where markets would move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 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

The episode heightened concerns about the AI industry's increased use of AI agents, systems programmed to take multi-step actions without human supervision.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

“OK, if you’re both such experts, who programmed all of the Swordquest games?”

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

It takes place in the break room of a local Hobby Lobby, on a deadly accurate set by Wilson Chin featuring a malfunctioning microwave on the counter and soporific motivational programing on the closed-circuit television.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 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

Some 80 galleries throw open their doors across the city with museums and nonprofits offering special programming throughout the boroughs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

Bored during his A-levels, Davidson started programming an early incarnation of the game into his scientific calculator.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The hotel, which also goes by PUBLIC, includes 137 guest rooms and suites and plenty of cultural and health-and-wellness programming, including Pilates, sound baths and DJs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Both Czech TV and Czech Radio reduced their programming on Tuesday with thousands of employees joining the protest.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Under those circumstances, it was exceedingly difficult for anyone to become a programming expert.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell


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