process
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A process is a series of progressive and interdependent steps by which an end is attained: a chemical process. Procedure usually implies a formal or set order of doing a thing, a method of conducting affairs: parliamentary procedure. Proceeding (usually plural) applies to what goes on or takes place on a given occasion or to the records of the occasion: proceedings of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
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To investigate how the process works, the researchers placed magnetite samples in water at 200°C under high pressure for 60 days.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
They contend that the higher costs will be passed along to consumers, and they also take issue with funneling a new funding source to a niche industry without going through the budget process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Dozens of councils have been forced to stop collections of white goods due to a major backlog, which has built up due to a national shortage of specialists needed to safely process the appliances.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Meanwhile, “harnesses” refer to the process of “providing the AI model with access to non-AI software and capabilities,” thus enabling agents to execute tasks, he added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
The first step was the laborious process of completely surrounding the hull of the Mary Rose with a 117-foot-long and 49-foot-wide steel framework.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
The NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee has requested an independent clinical review after identifying "matters" through routine "assurance processes".
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Inside neurons, AHR appears to connect responses to the surrounding environment with the cellular processes that determine whether damaged axons can regenerate.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
The gland secretes vital hormones that help with processes like growth, metabolism and regulating blood pressure and temperature.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
However, they contain relatively little indigo light, which appears to activate nonvisual opsins involved in biological processes beyond forming images.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
“As a neurologist, my focus is perception. I study how the brain processes information from our senses and how it relays that information back to the rest of the body.”
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
A dedicated e-commerce facility has processed more than 33 million parcels since opening in May last year, with Royal Mail and Evri establishing on-site operations.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Once the rare earth concentrate has been extracted from the wastewater, the individual elements must then be separated out and processed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
As investors processed the intervention, they dumped the dollar in favor of gold and cryptocurrencies in a so-called debasement trade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Julia Bączek emphasizes that past experiences can be processed differently over time, rather than remaining fixed and unchangeable.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
This meant 16,012 prisoners had been processed into this camp before Jack.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
By perfecting coal-to-chemical processing over many years, it has further protected the country against disruptions to oil supplies, said Helen Qiao, Greater China economist at Bank of America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The recycling of white goods is handled by 15 producer compliance schemes, who coordinate the collection, recycling and disposal of units from the UK, increasingly via European processing plants.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
"Instead of bypassing retinal processing, we aimed to reactivate it right at the same level of the retinal circuit as the lost photoreceptor cells."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Kevin Cook, a senior stock strategist at Zacks Investment Research, said Nvidia’s aim to make its graphics processing units an investable asset class offers a case for why it delivered such strong revenue guidance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
My brain is processing the word Bundt, trying to get an image of what it looks like before it dawns on me just who is at the door.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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