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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
Synonyms


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Treasury’s buyback program that was announced earlier this month to help keep the world’s biggest debt market running smoothly and stabilize long-end rates.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

From 2015 to 2025, the 4D Nucleome program brought together interdisciplinary research teams from across the United States to investigate how the genome's spatial arrangement influences biological processes.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

Cruz was on the most-watched college football program in the nation to make the case that Congress should “bring order to chaos” in college sports.

From Salon Sep. 15, 2026

Respondents were cautiously optimistic about an economic recovery in Germany, with growth continuing to be driven by fiscal measures via the German government’s investment program and export momentum, ZEW President Achim Wambach said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Andrei Sakharov, the physicist who led the Soviet hydrogen bomb program, borrowed a piece of paper from a scientist next to him.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

He said that British defined-benefit pension programs in the past had 50% exposure to local equities — today, that exposure is about 5%.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

Patterned after gun buyback programs organized by police departments, prosecutors in Orange County are offering gift cards for people to surrender e-bikes and e-motorcycles with “no questions” asked.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2026

The settlement also includes more than $36 million to resolve claims made by state government programs.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

He added that there have been pilots programs in Ukraine, where robots move objects around.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

The problem was woven into every aspect of family life, from the high price of fresh fruits to widespread cuts in funding for sports and rec programs in public schools.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

“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

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

From BBC Dec. 19, 2021

Leidecker used iPads programed to listen and acoustically act.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 2, 2018

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

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

They programmed several types of yeast, including baker's yeast, to take molecules derived from plastic and agricultural leftovers and convert them into proteins, vitamins, and flavoring compounds.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Mr. Adams’s new work would receive its premiere at the start of the next season, but only after those dates—the beginning of Maazel’s tenure as music director in New York—had already been programmed.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

The festival has programmed a documentary made entirely with AI -- "Be Brave" from Italian director Francesco Carrozzini, which centres on the founder of jeans brand Diesel, Renzo Rosso.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

When this is done, and the information programmed into all our computers, I for one would be willing to take my chances.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

“White gay men are the one segment that are most likely represented on our screens, whether it’s programing or ads,” said Lisette Arsuaga, co-founder of the Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing.

From New York Times May 25, 2023

Remedies for alteration of programing by cable systems.

From Copyright Law of the United States of America: contained in Title 17 of the United States Code. by United States

So she’s this feeling machine that battles against her own programming, but at the end of the day she can’t help her programming.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

The prize ceremony on Saturday wrapped up 10 days of often dark, disturbing programming that chief organiser Alberto Barbera had promised would echo the war-torn and anxiety-filled state of the world.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

The expansion was helped by a strong performance from the services sector, and particularly computer programming.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Computer programming made the largest contribution, potentially signaling a greater impact from artificial-intelligence activity on the U.K. economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

And I had no programming to protect me.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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