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input

[in-poot] / ˈɪnˌpʊt /




NOUN
intake
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Hernandez noted that other police technologies, such as a robot dog used in situations involving barricaded suspects, had quietly moved from a pilot to a full-fledged program without input from the council.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Chief Executive Brendan Foley said disciplined productivity initiatives helped offset rising input and freight costs, supporting margin expansion and enabling continued investment in the company’s brands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Corteva, a farming input maker, is now two companies, Corteva and Vylor.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

He flagged that Google is starting off by pricing Argon at $10 per million output tokens and $2 per million input tokens.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

I get out the Holo and manage to input our grid coordinates and scan the tunnels.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Besides a growing reliance on inputs and raw material, Chinese imports to India are also being propelled by other macroeconomic trends.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

It's the same story with industrial machinery, battery inputs, chemicals, solar cells, and manufacturing equipment.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Instead, it uses machine learning to classify inputs to a set of predetermined outputs: “yes” or “no,” a numerical score, or answers on a list.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

World Labs, which was founded in 2024, develops spatial-intelligence models that can generate and simulate three-dimensional environments using text, image and video inputs.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

I give her my email and she inputs it into her phone.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

If the CPA was using software, it’s pretty hard to get it wrong — unless he inputted the correct numbers.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 27, 2026

Employees who previously inputted orders are now focused on collecting receivables, Singh said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

They then inputted these charge values into computational models to mathematically predict how strong the electric field would be when a wasp approaches a caterpillar on a plant.

From Science Daily ● May 24, 2024

The water quality control board has been working to determine how to best manage the nutrients being inputted into the bay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

Images, data, and simulations are part of the work and part of the shared knowledge, already available in formats that can be inputted for further work or can be technologically tested.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

If necessary, redo your taxes yourself, inputting the correct data.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 27, 2026

One of AI’s most significant contributions so far is extracting data from standard common tax forms such as W-2s and 1099s and inputting it into tax returns.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

Galea built on these findings, inputting the layout of The Station club into a computer simulator he created which predicts how fires spread.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026

People who are immersed in AI often have some surprisingly old-fashioned habits, from scrawling meeting notes on paper to inputting calendar entries manually.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

She was inputting the different situations given to the team by the judges, but the results weren’t turning out like they’d predicted.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti




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