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download

[doun-lohd] / ˈdaʊnˌloʊd /


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The collaboration brings together two advocates of the open web and open-weight models, which are publicly available for anyone to download and modify.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

"Any message asking a job seeker to download an app to participate in an interview is not legitimate."

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

The companies said users will have to be paid subscribers to download songs.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

It also unveiled a tool that allows users to download maps featuring their own custom names for the lake.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

You can read about it at the Circular Harmonic System website22 or download a paper23 on the subject.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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

According to Similarweb, a digital market intelligence company, downloads of the app began to rise from just over 14,000 last October to 33,710 in November.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Other simultaneous downloads swept up episodes of “The Big Bang Theory” and “Ted Lasso” out of order, though a putative human user would probably have downloaded them sequentially.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

These regulations were followed by a spike in downloads of VPNs and calls from some, including the Children's Commissioner, for age checks to restrict them for young people.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

The officers were pursuing a Decker who was signing up for Bangers, the challenge for online feeds that has had a heartbreaking amount of daily hits and downloads the past four months.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

The 50-person figure would be more appropriate for those who received a particular document, and the universe of people who actually opened or downloaded it would be even smaller — perhaps 10 or fewer.

From Salon Sep. 14, 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

Two weeks before she received the letter, she had also received a phone notification that he had downloaded all the images she had shared.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

I get going, nailing the pieces Owen cut for me over the weekend, and then see from my downloaded plans that I need a level.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Jobseekers are being warned to be vigilant as scammers are targeting people on job listings websites to trick them into downloading bogus interview tools.

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

I think instead of downloading the Elliott Smith songs you mentioned, I'll just drop a hint to my dad that I want a couple of his albums for Hotel Hanukkah.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli




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