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protocol

[proh-tuh-kawl, -kol, -kohl] / ˈproʊ təˌkɔl, -ˌkɒl, -ˌkoʊl /


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"If you start with an already functional synapse, that plasticity protocol doesn't work," Harnett says.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

The incident raised immediate questions about the night’s security protocol.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

Both Signal and WhatsApp, which was bought by Mark Zuckerberg in 2014, are based on the same protocol built by Marlinspike.

From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026

The department said it has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to reinstate the execution protocol adopted during the first Trump administration, which relies on pentobarbital as the lethal agent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

It was a legacy of the Korean War, a decades-old protocol that gave American intelligence a firsthand chance to find out what defectors knew about the North.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden




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