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
For professional developers who need an environment that combines coding, debugging, and collaboration, Visual Studio Professional 2022 remains one of the most complete options available.
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PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
When new features are developed at AI velocity, those service contracts can break, and debugging the resulting failures often falls on operations.
—Ronak Desai, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Other firms including Alphabet Inc.’s Google are also building tools to help programmers streamline the process of writing and debugging code.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 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, 6 Oct. 2025
When new features are developed at AI velocity, those service contracts can break, and debugging the resulting failures often falls on operations.
—Ronak Desai, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Other firms including Alphabet Inc.’s Google are also building tools to help programmers streamline the process of writing and debugging code.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 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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Its authority to investigate stems from Senate Bill 553, which requires employers to maintain workplace violence prevention plans, and was amended to apply more generally to various industries, including law enforcement.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Those charges, however, were amended when prosecutors filed superseding indictments in both cases in early September.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
28 Oct. 2025
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To that point, the settlement attempts to correct an economic harm and cannot address possible harms that are contemplated by other areas of law.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Therefore, fairness dictates that blue states take action and gerrymander to the greatest extent allowed under federal law to correct the unfair advantage taken by Republicans, thereby leveling the playing field.—
Marc Lampe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Ryan Anderson,
Arkansas Online,
3 Nov. 2025
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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.—
Ryan Mancini,
The Hill,
31 Oct. 2025
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The court clarified that racial distinctions by the government only apply in the rare instances that government is remedying specific instances of its past discriminatory conduct.—
Andrew Quinio,
Oc Register,
29 Oct. 2025
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Jurors weren’t persuaded there was a kind of harm to competition that antitrust law ought to remedy.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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In September, Brodeur shared his intentions to reform the pageant in ways that answer Voigt and Srivastav's protests.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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Prime Minister Micheal Martin said the government was open to reforming the nomination process.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Debug.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debug. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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