programmed

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The Familiar must be programmed to handle these scenarios, like an autonomous vehicle is programmed to handle tricky intersections.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

“You’re given a map, and things are programmed several times throughout the night, so you can see most of it, but not everyone will get to do everything.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

In laboratory experiments, the devices remained stable through tens of thousands of switching cycles and retained their programmed states for about a day.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026

Bauer College of Business, whose research likens its effect on our senses to that of a shimmering body of water, which we’re evolutionarily programmed to perceive as a vital resource.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

The computers controlling the Friendship 7 flight had been programmed with an incalculable number of equations that would control the capsule’s trajectory from the time it lifted off at Cape Canaveral until it splashed down.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson