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input

[in-poot] / ˈɪnˌpʊt /




NOUN
intake
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There is no input from the economic data side, nor from any supply.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Among the most vulnerable sectors, she cited agriculture and heavy industry as they deal with water scarcity and higher input prices, as well as insurance if firms face higher claims.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

The lateral septum inherits much of its primary input from a brain region called the hippocampus.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

“This project started with several community meetings and community input, and to be successful, we need our neighbors to know and feel that this project is for them and to build a prosperous future.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

With Maggie’s input, Ellet ghostwrote a book about Maggie and Elisha’s relationship.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

But exports of intermediate inputs and capital goods increased by more than $175 billion from the year prior, helping push China’s trade surplus to a record $1.2 trillion.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

That fair value, which uses factors including the S&P 500, the 10-year yield and exchange rates as inputs, was actually adjusted downward given slowing rates of official — i.e., central bank — purchases.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

Capital and labor are the two fundamental inputs into an economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Results were also dented by reduced international refining runs because of a 10 percent drop in crude oil inputs.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

I give her my email and she inputs it into her phone.

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

You can check your tax returns by making sure that the information this CPA inputted is correct; the software will do the rest.

From MarketWatch Mar. 27, 2026

Employees who previously inputted orders are now focused on collecting receivables, Singh said.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

They then inputted these charge values into computational models to mathematically predict how strong the electric field would be when a wasp approaches a caterpillar on a plant.

From Science Daily May 24, 2024

It said a person's ethnicity may also be inputted into a part of the online incident recording system which is not searchable or pulled into data.

From BBC Mar. 1, 2024

Images, data, and simulations are part of the work and part of the shared knowledge, already available in formats that can be inputted for further work or can be technologically tested.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

If necessary, redo your taxes yourself, inputting the correct data.

From MarketWatch Mar. 27, 2026

One of AI’s most significant contributions so far is extracting data from standard common tax forms such as W-2s and 1099s and inputting it into tax returns.

From Barron's Jan. 31, 2026

The Medicare online tools don’t have a “couples” setting, so each person should go through the process by inputting their information.

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2025

Dan Spoor, a 69-year-old retired aerospace executive, used to spend hours researching companies in which he’s interested in investing and inputting their financial metrics into spreadsheets.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 25, 2025

Only when the series of equations had been sufficiently reduced would she start the process of inputting values and coming up with numbers using the calculating machines.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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