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download

[daun-lohd] / ˈdaʊnˌloʊd /


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But two critical flaws were found with the system that led to the emergency response, with national cyber-security authorities urging IT teams to download a security fix urgently or take websites and servers offline.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Physical copies of the game will contain a code for a digital download for the game inside a box, rather than a disc.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Riders can download the app and travel across L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Artex had been open-source -- allowing programmers to download its underlying code and customise it to suit their purposes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

I can connect the device to a computer and download any song I want.

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

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

But downloads have started to slow and its retention lags that of ChatGPT after 14 days, Sensor Tower data shows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

According to a Thursday report from Sensor Tower, Muse has accumulated over 3.4 million downloads across the U.S. and Canada since its Sept. 8 launch.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

I look around his room as my app downloads onto his phone, seeing the note I slipped under his door this morning sitting on top of his bed.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

More than 10 million people in the U.S. and Canada have downloaded the Muse app, Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on the company’s earnings call Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Muse, which Meta launched in September and has made available only in the United States and Canada, has been downloaded more than 10 million times, according to an analysis of third-party data by Sensor Tower.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 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

I try to read my downloaded version of The Waves, and when that isn’t any better, I think, It's the computer.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

"Interviewing through Indeed's platform happens entirely in a browser and never requires downloading a special app," the company recently posted online.

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

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

Another resident spoke of downloading a smartphone app to track decibel levels throughout the day, intending to document the noise of the coaster screams and report any violations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Apart from movies, weekends were constructed around some new Net or Web project—trying out a just-purchased game, downloading new software, collecting and listening to music, installing a new operating system.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz


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