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programmer

[proh-gram-er] / ˈproʊ græm ər /


NOUN
cyberpunk
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“That Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffle commercial is incredible,” says programmer Branscome.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

After 60 years of loving to drive, it wasn’t easy to admit that Elon Musk is a better programmer than I am a driver.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

In 2012, a French programmer called Stéphane Gigandet launched a free, online and crowdsourced food product database called Open Food Facts during the Food Revolution Day organised by English chef Jamie Oliver.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

"We have no Wi-Fi, no electricity, we can't work," said a young software programmer working for a tourism start-up in another neighborhood.

From Barron's Jul. 6, 2026

The longer or more complex the program, the more cards the programmer fed the computer.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Yet, the festival’s programmers seem to be decentralizing their attention-hogging neighbors to the south.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

The AI agents have been trained to act like collaborative hackers and programmers so are merely mimicking the kinds of emotive comments they have seen.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Carville’s reputation for colorful turns of phrase, and his tendency to stomp on any calls for the party to move left, made him a favorite of cable news programmers looking to make entertaining television.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

It happens because AIs learn to maximize a reward—usually some form of numeric score, not the underlying behavior programmers intend.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

That, in turn, meant that programmers didn’t have to physically hand their stacks of computer cards to the operator anymore.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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