process
Usage
What are other ways to say process?
A process is a series of progressive and interdependent steps by which an end is attained: a chemical process. Procedure usually implies a formal or set order of doing a thing, a method of conducting affairs: parliamentary procedure. Proceeding (usually plural) applies to what goes on or takes place on a given occasion or to the records of the occasion: proceedings of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
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However, it remains unclear when -- or if -- the White House will release the details of the process or how it will be implemented and enforced.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
It said it tightened its seller vetting process, introduced a policy to reimburse buyers who win high-value items that sellers fail to deliver and mandated that all repack boxes be manufacturer-sealed and verified before sale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
In the process, Musk lost his trillionaire status.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Despite raising concerns and using the employer's grievance process, her agreed working pattern was not permanently restored.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Phineas is the foreman of a track construction gang that is in the process of blasting a railroad right-of-way through granite bedrock near the small town of Cavendish, Vermont.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
A recent World Bank study found that most garment factories in Bangladesh still rely on semi-automated labour-intensive processes, while rivals such as Vietnam are moving rapidly towards advanced manufacturing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
"It's particularly hard when you're looking at agentic processes," Ventners says.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Even so, companies are increasingly focused on understanding and controlling their spending on AI, just as they came to develop tools and processes for controlling their spending on cloud computing, according to Zilberman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
It helps cells build proteins that carry out a wide range of biological processes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Galileo thus established a new equivalence between natural processes and artificial ones.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Changes in the way muscle cells processed energy caused the cells to activate their own immune response.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
He said that Robinhood had processed a 40% jump in wager contracts over the first quarter, but had questions on how much the company earned per contract.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Every time you click "buy" on an online order, the chances are that your purchase starts getting processed within minutes.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Rather than send wheat to Minneapolis to be processed, incurring high transportation costs, farmers and the state banded together to form the North Dakota Mill, the only state-owned mill in the United States.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
What he didn’t see, but I did, was the top of a wallet of newly processed photos, bulging from the pocket of Kat’s fur-collared jacket.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
MA thinks there’s a risk the market will be underwhelmed by a maiden study on the project, which is likely to be limited by an initial 1.8-million-metric-ton processing rate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
In this case, the teenage driver’s insurance is still processing the claim.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
The researchers credited USF's Research Computing facility with providing the processing power needed for the project.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
The agriculture company, which helps farmers with processing and management, on Wednesday posted a profit of $678 million, or $3.47 a share, compared with $354 million, or $2.61 a share, a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
After twenty feet, the tunnel opened into a cavern as large as a cathedral, so majestic that Annabeth had trouble processing everything she saw.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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