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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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Any coach who says “I don’t want to know” where a transfer lives to escape accountability might want to start realizing an entire program can go down when they abdicate responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

But it didn’t provide a specific dollar number for the full program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The payments will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, established by Congress in 2008 to fund improvements to Medicare’s fee-for-service program.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

The program, called Next Generation Command and Control, or NGC2, was designed to give troops the latest communication, mapping and artificial intelligence tools coming out of Silicon Valley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Korolev had been following news of the U.S. space program.

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

It has said its programs are aimed at helping participants build general wealth, and cited research that Black and Latino families only hold 2% of the wealth being passed on by baby boomers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

L.A. voting rights groups rally to recruit poll watchers, launch protection programs, and counter potential election disruption in the November vote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The office will also oversee the Armed Forces Chaplains Board and advocate for funding for religious programs across the military.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

If acted upon, these MPs’ recommendations could influence future investment in community exercise programs and support services.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Who programs her doorbell to sound like a frog?

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

Spain's biggest lender accidentally made a second payment Saturday to about 75,000 people and firms due for one-off or programed payments from 2,000 businesses with accounts at its U.K. unit.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021

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

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2021

We’re talking about a system that has to be programed sequentially and that can only do one thing at a time.

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2021

Leidecker used iPads programed to listen and acoustically act.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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

Each one contains their person's medical needs and individual calendar and is programmed to tell users when it's time to eat or play bingo or watch their favourite television show.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Godrich notes proudly that “the way the record was made was completely mechanical,” meaning nothing was programmed on a computer but instead recorded “live on the fly” using older equipment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

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

Nico explains that the keys are programmed to the sampler of a drum kit he loaded earlier.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

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

After 26 people were killed by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, Jones made a false conspiracy theory a centerpiece of his programing on his flagship Infowars show.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 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

International Math Olympiad team; Hoke competed in the world championships of competitive programming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The MPs' report said the BBC could "spend more wisely when competing for programming".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Ellison months ago made a public commitment to protect HBO, which has long been a leader in prestige TV programming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Notice how similar the programming instructions are for computers, systems and people.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Maybe Roz really was defective, and some glitch in her programming had caused her to accidentally become a wild robot.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown




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