process
Usage
What are other ways to say process?
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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The study also pointed to a specific biological process that may help explain the association.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
Even the plaintiffs in the House settlement, which created the CSC, are in the process of challenging the current system.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
In recent years, however, the company has repeatedly flouted regulators and the legal process.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
In April his brother paid emotional tribute to the men's parents, calling their deaths "almost too impossible to process."
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Phineas is the foreman of a track construction gang that is in the process of blasting a railroad right-of-way through granite bedrock near the small town of Cavendish, Vermont.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Vocabulary lists containing process
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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