process
Usage
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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.
Example Sentences
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OpenAI and Anthropic also spend billions of dollars a year to process queries made on their AI systems.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
The Isle of Man's emergency air ambulance services have been secured for the next five years following a tender process.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
Rowan could use another friend to help him through the grieving process.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
It also exhibits nonlinear optical behavior, including a process known as third harmonic generation.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
And yet she had been the first English battleship to have gunports and to mount complete batteries of siege artillery—a really key ship in the development process at a time of rapid technological change.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
