process
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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.
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During a hearing, Judge Joseph A. Montano granted Busfield’s motion to dismiss his indictment, citing prosecutorial misconduct and errors that undermined the grand jury process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Smesko also pushed to rebuild Reese’s stroke, a frustrating and slow process, and it’s starting to pay off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
John Leech, the chairman of the GMCA's Overview and Scrutiny Committee, told the BBC concerns had been raised about the transparency of the process to approve the loans.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
This is often a two-step process of temporary and then permanent status that takes several years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
But the words of the map's verse ran around and around in his head, always ending in the same way, the same frightening way that jerked him awake and started the process all over again.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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Suk’s scholarship focuses on the processes of constitutional amendment and reform and the feminist constitutional movements.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
“The Department remains committed to ensuring that all uses of force are thoroughly investigated and evaluated through established administrative review processes and independent oversight,” the department said in an emailed statement to The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
By linking the behavior of relatively small black holes to that of supermassive giants, the findings strengthen the idea that the same basic physical processes operate across vastly different scales.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
They could also provide new insights into how the brain processes memories and language, potentially leading to advances in technologies that help people communicate after neurological injuries.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
The resort to weapons such as insecticides to control it is a proof of insufficient knowledge and of an incapacity so to guide the processes of nature that brute force becomes unnecessary.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Mr. Chatten’s baritone voice, delivered with a growl and processed to sound as if it’s transmitting from a crackly pirate radio station, recalls Curtis’s tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
In the United States, at least 16 factories processed fishmeal as of 2025, along the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, the Gulf Coast in Mississippi and Louisiana, and in California, Oregon and Alaska.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Industrial trans fats, which can be present in some processed and fried foods, have been strongly linked to an increased risk of heart disease.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Some AI computing power and data will be processed locally, or on the device, while other applications are still handled remotely via Microsoft's cloud computing services.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
And then the disaster happened and orchids started growing, sucking up the processed chemicals from moss, and just like that: blue orchid.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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Their findings offer a promising new approach to controlling quantum behavior and could eventually help engineers develop superconducting electronics that use far less energy while processing information more efficiently.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
While higher yields will raise the cost of financing for AI projects, that doesn’t change the fact that demand for processing power far exceeds supply, Ives said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Threets discusses healthy ways of understanding and processing complicated and overwhelming emotions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Public sentiment has turned against the expansion of data centres, the large warehouses that store processing power needed for internet activity.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 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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