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download

[doun-lohd] / ˈdaʊnˌloʊd /


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The telescope will be generating about 1.3 terabytes of data a day, "which means you basically can't download the data to anybody's laptop," he said.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

“But I think in this case, unless they release the playable build for other people to download, I don’t think that it’s going to have a noticeable impact on their sales.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

He said a foreign actor could download the list and send an email to residents posing as the city asking for tax money.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

The fast-food standards have them, of course, but so do regional chains and neighborhood coffee shops: download this, order ahead, skip the line, collect points, save your usual.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

With the download, I would’ve had other stories.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Digital downloads accounted for nearly 82 percent of game sales on the PS4 and PS5 at the start of 2026, Sony said in late July.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Market intelligence firm Sensor Tower said other Bird ID apps have also been used more - such as Birda, which it says has had 31% more downloads this year.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

The FT’s article reports that the Chinese government discussed restricting the transfer of important data abroad and limiting the downloads of models by foreign users.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Strike 3 says it can show that the downloads weren’t the work of random users.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

The vials and collection tools would’ve intimidated me before the hundreds of years of downloads.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Sophia, a 35-year-old mum of three in Portsmouth, pays for school trips and makes lunch orders on her children's school's app on her phone, but says her husband has never downloaded it.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

One victim was invited on LinkedIn by a fake recruiter to take part in a job interview process and downloaded a normal-looking document which turned out to be malicious software.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

MapQuest — a navigation app that describes itself as the “OG of online mapping” — shot up to the top of Apple’s charts for free apps as more people downloaded it.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

The company touts open models, which can be downloaded and modified, as opposed to closed models like those of rivals OpenAI or Anthropic.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

I downloaded every game mentioned or referenced in the Almanac, from Akalabeth to Zaxxon.

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

Criminals are using the pressure and excitement of job interviews to lure people into downloading booby-trapped mobile applications like a fake Indeed Interview app or one called MyInterview.

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

And I was downloading podcasts in 15-minute increments to my iPod Nano.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 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

“You know the password. Don’t go downloading anything suspicious.”

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson




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