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download

[daun-lohd] / ˈdaʊnˌloʊd /


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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

The hotel nicely let me use their Wi-Fi to download it, but even that didn’t work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

It would take a day to download an album.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

The app had 46 million downloads and more than 6.7 million daily active users in March 2026, the app’s team said on its fourth anniversary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 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

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

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

“I have a present for you, Petra. I couldn’t get your curriculum approved, but since you’re technically old enough for more downloads, and these are off the record...”

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

Advertising slogans for sugary cereal, microwavable convenience foods, and supersized everything were downloaded directly into the minds of children watching cartoons.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Word of warning: It’s not worth writing a will on the cheap or downloading one from the Internet.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 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

Cloud gaming allows players to stream and play games online from a remote server using a phone, tablet or controller, rather than downloading and running it on a PC or console at home.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Even as I continue downloading information, I find myself distracted as the spotlights sweep over each team, hardly able to believe that I’m in the same space as them.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu


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