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processor

[pros-es-er, proh-ses-] / ˈprɒs ɛs ər, ˈproʊ sɛs- /


NOUN
central processing unit
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The company has beef operations in Brazil and Australia, and is also the second-largest pork processor in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Make the cornbread crumbs: While the squash cooks, tear the cornbread into roughly pebble-size pieces by hand, or pulse it briefly in a food processor.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

She added that Albert Straus, a private equity-backed organic dairy processor in Petaluma, also reached out to Kennedy.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

PayPal in its earnings report pointed to growth in peer-to-peer payments platform Venmo and payments processor Braintree, as well as its debit card and buy now, pay later businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

But if the Stormbreakers were based on the round processor there couldn’t possibly be any need for such extremes—and anyway, this was like nothing Alex had ever seen before.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

Some experts have pointed out that most of the large AI labs are also designing custom silicon processors to power their models, and are therefore already in direct competition with Nvidia.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

The company is also asking platforms like social-media companies, payment processors and credit-card companies, and shipping services to step in.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

In the past, the company sold more of its chicken to other processors, distributors or restaurant customers at lower wholesale prices.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Nvidia stock was rising after Amazon raised its capital expenditure forecast and played down competition between its custom AI chips and Nvidia’s processors.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

But even the best software isn’t smart enough to assign trees reliably, so writers cannot offload the task of minding the tree onto their word processors.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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