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[daun-lohd] / ˈdaʊnˌloʊd /


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The attackers, believed to be linked to North Korea, built a fake developer tool and lured a Binance engineer to download it, Teng says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

So-called open AI models, which anyone can download and modify, are close behind closed models such as Claude or ChatGPT, which are available only through their owners' paid services.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

From airfares to computer game download prices, there are the first signs of stickier forms of price pressure and of higher inflation becoming more embedded, suggesting elevated price rises are not temporary.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

When we were on a group vacation, she got everyone to download the Splitwise app.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Truth is, I hadn’t heard of them, either, but I knew enough to pretend I knew them—at least until I could download the song tonight.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

The Muse artificial-intelligence agent has reached 10 million downloads in a little over a month since it was launched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

These giant, warehouse-like buildings power virtually all our internet activity, from our web searches and emails to movie downloads and online banking.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Younger audiophiles revived the medium from the dead starting in 2008 for many reasons, the simplest being that digital downloads don’t include eye-popping cover art.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Muse has amassed nearly nine million global downloads since its release.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

This Harlem free Wi-Fi was sooo slow for downloads.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

It has been downloaded more than 46 million times and has more than 6.7 million daily users, according to developers, Ajax Systems.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Bumble is one of the world's most downloaded dating apps, operating in a crowded market where growth has slowed.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Since Dub’s founding in 2021, 2 million people have downloaded it and placed $1.6 billion in copy trades.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Hayward resident Jason Hughes, 73, downloaded ChatGPT and Claude for the first time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

I downloaded each of their video recordings to a laptop and advanced them to noon.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Criminals are using the pressure and excitement of job interviews to lure people into downloading booby-trapped mobile applications like a fake Indeed Interview app or one called MyInterview.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Hundreds of thousands responded by downloading the app; by Monday, MapQuest had climbed to No. 1 among navigation apps in Apple’s U.S.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

The immediate risk is a “harvest now, decrypt later” approach by bad actors, who are downloading large sets of encrypted data they can’t crack now—but could unlock once quantum computing algorithms are good enough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Holographic, or handwritten, wills are legal in about half of the states in the U.S, including Texas, but it’s not worth writing a will on the cheap or downloading one from the internet.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

The problem for me was that the cell service on my BlackBerry had somehow disconnected, never sending out my messages or downloading updates from others.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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