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processor

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


NOUN
central processing unit
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The giant payroll processor ADP, for instance, said that in August, private-sector businesses added the fewest new jobs in seven months: just 38,000.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

The Instagram play presaged a series of lucrative investments involving brand-name startups: Spotify, payments processor Stripe, online glasses retailer Warby Parker, Gillette disruptor Harry’s, Twitch and Reddit.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

"I think growing up in Appalachia, she's always been my hero," Donchatz, a 35-year-old mortgage processor from Asheville, North Carolina, told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

Macs offer what’s called a unified memory architecture, where the main computer processor, aka CPU, and the graphics processor, aka GPU, share the same pool of memory on the same chip.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

When the food processor hit the wall, the putrid batch of peanut butter splattered.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

The company initially catered heavily to cryptocurrency miners before the AI boom redirected its attention toward computing using Nvidia’s GPU processors.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Initially, processors squeezed oil from the beans mechanically.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

At the behest of local vegetable growers and processors, the Liberal government asked the trade tribunal this year to investigate whether imports of foreign canned vegetables were harming Canada’s food sector.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

On Thursday, agriculture ministry officials held a meeting with the association of dairy processors about the problem, with the ministry committing to support farmers, stabilise milk supply and protect consumers.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

One reason is they make less money than supermarkets, wholesalers, and food processors.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan




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