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app

[ap] / æp /
NOUN
application
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In 2020, he moved to Minehead in Somerset and met Kelly Faiers on a dating app in 2022.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

The women monitor a smartphone app to track alerts for Russian airstrikes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

It adopts a helpful no-punishment philosophy: If you don’t meet your goals or you step away from the app for an extended amount of time, it only sends encouragement.

From Slate Sep. 6, 2026

The texts are set to songs created by the AI music app Suno.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

Using the pile of construction paper, markers, and tape, we began sketching screenshots of how we imagined our app would look, on cardboard cutouts shaped like cell phones.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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