programmed

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Even if you’ve never heard of something, if the festival has programmed it, it will make you happy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Massie is a throwback libertarian who, in lieu of the standard lawmaker flag pin, wears on his lapel a national debt clock that he programmed himself.

From Slate • May 19, 2026

"Vitamin B2 plays a crucial role in protecting cancer cells from ferroptosis, a special form of programmed cell death," says PhD student Vera Skafar.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

The Familiar must be programmed to handle these scenarios, like an autonomous vehicle is programmed to handle tricky intersections.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

The computers controlling the Friendship 7 flight had been programmed with an incalculable number of equations that would control the capsule’s trajectory from the time it lifted off at Cape Canaveral until it splashed down.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson