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download

[daun-lohd] / ˈdaʊnˌloʊd /


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The attackers, believed to be linked to North Korea, built a fake developer tool and lured a Binance engineer to download it, Teng says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Further information, including a recent download from Lucy's mobile phone, contained information which "we believe are relevant to the circumstances leading up to her death."

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

From airfares to computer game download prices, there are the first signs of stickier forms of price pressure and of higher inflation becoming more embedded, suggesting elevated price rises are not temporary.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Riders can download the app and travel across L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Spy gear that can eavesdrop on all the prime minister's top-secret communications and then uplink classified information to a satellite, which Dr. Loofah will download and sell to the highest bidder.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Roughly 100 million iPhone buyers paid for storage upgrades last year, according to IDC estimates, seeking a cushion to support high-resolution videos, content downloads, text attachments and data-hungry apps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Muse has reached 10 million downloads in just over a month since it was launched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

These giant, warehouse-like buildings power virtually all our internet activity, from our web searches and emails to movie downloads and online banking.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Younger audiophiles revived the medium from the dead starting in 2008 for many reasons, the simplest being that digital downloads don’t include eye-popping cover art.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Elsie not only downloads the app that lets me access the othernet, she even creates a profile for me on Eurgphmthilthmsphlthm, the leading social media site in the supernatural world.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

More than 10 million people in the U.S. and Canada have downloaded the Muse app, Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on the company’s earnings call.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Muse, which Meta launched in September and has made available only in the United States and Canada, has been downloaded more than 10 million times, according to an analysis of third-party data by Sensor Tower.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

While DeepSeek's free chatbot app is one of the most downloaded apps in the Apple App Store rankings, its AI models are also used by US tech companies.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Hayward resident Jason Hughes, 73, downloaded ChatGPT and Claude for the first time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Advertising slogans for sugary cereal, microwavable convenience foods, and supersized everything were downloaded directly into the minds of children watching cartoons.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Hundreds of thousands responded by downloading the app; by Monday, MapQuest had climbed to No. 1 among navigation apps in Apple’s U.S.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Holographic, or handwritten, wills are legal in about half of the states in the U.S, including Texas, but it’s not worth writing a will on the cheap or downloading one from the internet.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

The airline is going back to one mile per dollar spent at the coffee chain from its current setup where you get miles for downloading money to your Starbucks Rewards card.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Another resident spoke of downloading a smartphone app to track decibel levels throughout the day, intending to document the noise of the coaster screams and report any violations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Apart from movies, weekends were constructed around some new Net or Web project—trying out a just-purchased game, downloading new software, collecting and listening to music, installing a new operating system.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz


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