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input

[in-poot] / ˈɪnˌpʊt /




NOUN
intake
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Among the most vulnerable sectors, she cited agriculture and heavy industry as they deal with water scarcity and higher input prices, as well as insurance if firms face higher claims.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

The department plans to seek community input after an agreement with the vendor is signed, including on what the boats should look like.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

However, if we sort by who controls the scarce input, three tiers appear:

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

He found an example of a function in three dimensions which has a constant Jacobian determinant of -2, and which moves multiple input points to the same output point, so it is not reversible.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

Then Tats, who’s more with the program, steps up to the plate with her input.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

“We have to keep our information safe and protected, and we have to control the inputs and the outputs of the models,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Systematic strategies, employed by big hedge funds and some institutional managers, use sophisticated algorithms and data inputs to make investing decisions.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

Capital and labor are the two fundamental inputs into an economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

So Hormuz blocks commodity exports, Yuntianhua buys fertilizer inputs at a premium, then Beijing reduces global supply by restricting phosphate exports — and fertilizer prices go up.

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

“I don’t see anything from way up here, but Fly could get a more detailed look,” Guardian inputs.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

If the CPA was using tax 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

At 14:30 BST, Nats confirmed that flight plans were being inputted manually, which meant heavy restrictions on the number of flights in and out of the UK.

From BBC Sep. 2, 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

The software also sends reminder emails and phone alerts to prompt people to keep up with categorizing transactions that are automatically pulled in or inputting new ones manually.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 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

The Medicare online tools don’t have a “couples” setting, so each person should go through the process by inputting their information.

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2025

Dan Spoor, a 69-year-old retired aerospace executive, used to spend hours researching companies in which he’s interested in investing and inputting their financial metrics into spreadsheets.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 25, 2025

Only when the series of equations had been sufficiently reduced would she start the process of inputting values and coming up with numbers using the calculating machines.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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