as in to amend
to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from
the computer program ran much faster after it was debugged
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Recent Examples of debug
Live Share allows real-time editing and debugging sessions with teammates, so everyone stays in sync.
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PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2025
Consider, for instance, a coding copilot that assists developers and collaborates with other agents to debug, refactor, and optimize software in real time.
—Mallik Tatipamula, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
After graduating from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science, Bezos landed a gig debugging lines of code at a telecommunications startup, Fitel, before working as a product manager for Banker’s Trust, now part of Deutsche Bank.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 9 Oct. 2025
Today developers are positioning agents as a more advanced form of chatbot, capable of autonomously making decisions and completing routine tasks, such as navigating a Web browser or debugging computer code.
—Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
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PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2025
Consider, for instance, a coding copilot that assists developers and collaborates with other agents to debug, refactor, and optimize software in real time.
—Mallik Tatipamula, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
After graduating from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science, Bezos landed a gig debugging lines of code at a telecommunications startup, Fitel, before working as a product manager for Banker’s Trust, now part of Deutsche Bank.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 9 Oct. 2025
Today developers are positioning agents as a more advanced form of chatbot, capable of autonomously making decisions and completing routine tasks, such as navigating a Web browser or debugging computer code.
—Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for debug
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The committee amended the bill to remove the authority’s goal of 15% participation by minority business enterprises and 5% participation from women’s business enterprises to participate in the procurement and contracting process.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2026
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If passed, the bills would ask voters if the state Constitution should be amended to legalize recreational cannabis for adults.—
A.J. Herrington,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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This story has been updated to correct the attribution in a quote to Nixon instead of Moody.—
Freida Frisaro,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2026
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The story has been corrected and updated.—
Steven Portnoy,
ABC News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Jan. 2026
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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.—
Rachel Frazin,
The Hill,
23 Jan. 2026
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Historically, it was meant to remedy something that was true in England, where the colonists came from, which was that the king or those empowered by the king could invade people’s homes at will.—
John E. Jones,
Fortune,
23 Jan. 2026
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Uthmeier wants to end dozens of initiatives designed to create a level playing field and remedy the wrongs of the past, Rouson added.—
Jeffrey Schweers,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 Jan. 2026
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The liberal impulse — insistence that injustice isn’t cured by patience, willingness to reform systems that calcify into maladministration — can keep institutions from becoming the archives of old hierarchies.—
Robert T.F. Downes,
Hartford Courant,
6 Jan. 2026
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And no, that’s not scaffolding law, which the city recently reformed, but an arcane state labor law that has exponentially inflated the cost of construction beyond reason for decades.—
Elizabeth Crowley,
New York Daily News,
6 Jan. 2026
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