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download

[daun-lohd] / ˈdaʊnˌloʊd /


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You don’t have to download an app or even swipe a credit card—the session is charged to whatever card GM has on file for you.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Physical copies of the game will contain a code for a digital download for the game inside a box, rather than a disc.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Artex had been open-source -- allowing programmers to download its underlying code and customise it to suit their purposes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

I give her my number, and she watches as I download the video and erase her message.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

Roughly 100 million iPhone buyers paid for storage upgrades last year, according to IDC estimates, seeking a cushion to support high-resolution videos, content downloads, text attachments and data-hungry apps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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

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

Muse has amassed nearly nine million global downloads since its release.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

More than 10 million people in the U.S. and Canada have downloaded the Muse app, Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on the company’s earnings call Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

While DeepSeek's free chatbot app is one of the most downloaded apps in the Apple App Store rankings, its AI models are also used by US tech companies.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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

As the file downloaded, I glanced away from my screen, through the slits of the blinds to the parking lot outside.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

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

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

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

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

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson


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