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algorithm

[al-guh-rith-uhm] / ˈæl gəˌrɪð əm /


NOUN
program
Synonyms


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“It’s part self-care, part status signal, part algorithm bait,” she adds.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

Do you ever get the sense that your Twitter algorithm thinks that you, yourself, are a conspiracy theorist?

From Slate • May 7, 2026

Kim Seong-geun, a 32-year-old marketer, said his social-media algorithm kept showing him elf-ear videos.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

The ultimate goal is a compiler that takes code written for conventional computers and automatically transforms it into an efficient quantum algorithm.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

This is a conservative estimate, since the algorithm was able to identify only the most egregious form of cheating—in which teachers systematically changed students’ answers—and not the many subtler ways a teacher might cheat.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt




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