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processor

[pros-es-er, proh-ses-] / ˈprɒs ɛs ər, ˈproʊ sɛs- /


NOUN
central processing unit
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The pain was particularly acute at Nortera Foods, which the tribunal identified as the biggest processor of canned food by a significant margin.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

The giant payroll processor ADP, for instance, said that in August, private-sector businesses added the fewest new jobs in seven months: just 38,000.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

The Instagram play presaged a series of lucrative investments involving brand-name startups: Spotify, payments processor Stripe, online glasses retailer Warby Parker, Gillette disruptor Harry’s, Twitch and Reddit.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

The stock tumbled 14% after an Advent-linked firm and payment processor Stripe abandoned attempts to acquire the company, according to a Bloomberg report.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

The processor was slower than a sloth by current standards, but it was fine for my needs.

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

The company initially catered heavily to cryptocurrency miners before the AI boom redirected its attention toward computing using Nvidia’s GPU processors.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

The attacks and lasting damage are complicating the pitch by Gulf states like the United Arab Emirates to become world-leading data processors for industries such as artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Cut off from imported fats and oils, U.S. processors turned to domestic vegetable oils, especially soybean oil.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

Some of the milk processors in Kenya often reconvert the powder into the more-preferred liquid milk during dry seasons when the supply of fresh milk goes down.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

But even the best software isn’t smart enough to assign trees reliably, so writers cannot offload the task of minding the tree onto their word processors.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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