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program

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


NOUN
performance in medium
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NOUN
instructions for a computer
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VERB
to create software
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Nike’s program spanned 12 weeks and featured stars like Kim Kardashian and athletes including Cristiano Ronaldo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Amanpour said her daily news show on CNN will be scaled back to once a week until next June, while her PBS program will also end.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Comedy Central said the program has accrued 1.6 billion views across social media in 2026.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

She has presented her own nightly interview program on CNN International since 2009.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

That was when we held a program of our accomplishments.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Colleges raced to expand their programs as students flocked to a field that promised lucrative careers in tech.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

As these high-speed networking programs mostly follow a customer-consignment model, their rising revenue mix should offer upside to the Taiwanese wafer-testing provider’s overall gross margin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

At its Raytheon unit, sales jumped 14% to $8.03 billion, helped by higher volume on naval programs as well as land and air defense systems, including Patriot, Standard Missile and Tomahawk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

In contrast, Asian students were less than 15% of the county’s student population but made up about half of the enrolees at the magnet programs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

As guests arrive, we say hello and hand out the programs that are printed on ivory linen paper.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

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

Spain's biggest lender accidentally made a second payment Saturday to about 75,000 people and firms due for one-off or programed payments from 2,000 businesses with accounts at its U.K. unit.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021

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

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

The team next investigated whether these expandable progenitor cells could be programmed to fight cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

After Lisa Moore’s cancer treatments stopped working, the 64-year-old enrolled in a study to try out a new type of drug, one that is programmed to go after disease in cells in a novel way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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

Nana, Uncle Paul, and our neighbor Mrs. Chapman are the only people whose numbers are programmed into it.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

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

A ground-floor entrance and windows will afford much greater visibility to its exhibitions, bookstore and public programing, while another level will supply additional offices for administrative and publication staff.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

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

Its engagement slump has resurfaced an old debate at the company: Were subscribers not watching more because of the programming from Los Angeles?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Having been subjected to multiple FCC probes of ABC’s programming, the corporation has pushed back in court against Carr, in what has already amounted to a drawn-out and expensive legal tussle.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Fox’s acquisition gives the media titan a way to deliver its programming directly to views, a huge plus for its Sunday NFL games.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Instead of programming the humanoids under controlled conditions, Tau is sending its robots into homes to learn through first-hand experience.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

There he spent the spring writing code, supervised by a man named John Norton, who Gates says taught him as much about programming as almost anyone he’d ever met.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell


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