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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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President Trump said in an interview with CNN that renewed strikes were “highly unlikely” as long as there was progress in negotiations regarding Tehran’s nuclear program and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

He carried out the research while working at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center and has since brought his internationally recognized translational research program to the University of Oklahoma.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

Bass made it a top priority from the outset, launching an expensive program to bring people indoors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

But many have been shipped to zoos around the world as apart of Beijing's decades-long "panda diplomacy" program to foster foreign ties.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

“Do you think the Lewis and Clark program was why we got the Cocoon in the first place?”

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

During fasting, a population of intestinal cells carrying these repair programs becomes more abundant.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

They also raise important questions about modern reforestation programs, which often prioritize planting dense forests to combat climate change and protect biodiversity.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

The industry stepped up its outreach to schools and scholarship programs amid a postpandemic shortage of commercial-airline pilots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

The Depression rendered millions of Americans jobless, homeless and hungry; he created programs such as the Works Progress Administration to tide them over until the cloud passed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

No one else could run my programs at the hospital.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

“That tells you that it really is more about cultural connection. It is about a nuance that is present in culturally programed content,” de Armas said.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2022

Co-founder and chief executive Philippe Goldman says the robots have been programed to maintain top quality control.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aziz, who also established The Sicilian restaurant, developed the machines using mostly locally manufactured parts, designing their circuit boards and programming them in his own lab.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

Several media outlets in Ireland evacuated newsrooms, some suspending live programming as staff exited buildings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

In September BBC Wales announced 58 job cuts as well as a 20-hour annual cut in TV programming as part of UK-wide plans to save £500m.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 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

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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