programmed
Example Sentences
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The idea that you’re kind of programmed by your parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
During our visit, Robert - who is programmed to be friendly -repeatedly asked Vera how she was, reassuring her "I'll be here if you need me".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
They did what humans programmed them to do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
If they are programmed to regulate human behavior according to today’s view of nature, we are surely in for apocalypse.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
