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program

[proh-gram, -gruhm] / ˈproʊ græm, -grəm /


NOUN
performance in medium
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NOUN
instructions for a computer
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VERB
to create software
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The first program to be launched under the collaboration will focus on hypertension care and clinical research in Abu Dhabi in partnership with healthcare company M42, AstraZeneca said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Amanpour said her daily news show on CNN will be scaled back to once a week until next June, while her PBS program will also end.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The company said the program was losing $40 million a year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

She has presented her own nightly interview program on CNN International since 2009.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“We can work on the program together. It’ll be fun.”

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

She also announced plans to waive $100 million in electric bill charges that fund green energy programs, at least for this winter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

In contrast, Asian students were less than 15% of the county’s student population but made up about half of the enrolees at the magnet programs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Student enrollment in four-year computer-science programs plunged to 206,442 students in 2025, down 11% from 2024, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Unlike large language models that can help humans write code, CEMs live inside running programs and operate without human involvement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Of all the reintroductions of all the different species that are undertaken, only a small percentage currently have elaborate training-to-be-wild programs.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

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

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

Early on, he took an interest in computers, and, he said, in high school programmed custom real estate software for his uncles.

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

Agentic AI, in particular, will be central to software development, Huang said, referring to systems programmed to be autonomous and perform tasks without supervision.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

“OK, if you’re both such experts, who programmed all of the Swordquest games?”

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

It takes place in the break room of a local Hobby Lobby, on a deadly accurate set by Wilson Chin featuring a malfunctioning microwave on the counter and soporific motivational programing on the closed-circuit television.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 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

A handful of startups are using gene editing and sensors to do just that, programming plants to “tell” farmers when they are under stress before visible symptoms appear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Having been subjected to multiple FCC probes of ABC’s programming, the corporation has pushed back in court against Carr, in what has already amounted to a drawn-out and expensive legal tussle.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

AI is surpassing human abilities in pursuits from mathematics to computer programming, while threatening to alter or even eradicate many jobs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Instead of programming the humanoids under controlled conditions, Tau is sending its robots into homes to learn through first-hand experience.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Nurse Beverly was just giving an excuse that would help Lola get around her programming.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix


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