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The Falcon 9 is SpaceX’s workhorse rocket, and the company has been constantly iterating on the vehicle’s design since it was first introduced. — Loren Grush, The Verge, "The Verge 2018 tech report card: SpaceX," 29 Dec. 2018 Dookeran says Uber plans to constantly iterate and add that kind of comparative information over time. — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, "Uber launches electric scooter service," 3 Oct. 2018 The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus iterated on the basic design the company has been using for its flagship iPhones since the iPhone 6 in 2014. — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, "Apple’s September 12, 2018 event: What we expect to be “gathering round” for," 9 Sep. 2018 Unlike a traditional farmer, who may work his land for 50 years and in that time get only 50 growing seasons to experiment with, a Square Roots farmer can iterate endlessly until: spinach. — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, "Kimbal Musk Is Reinventing Food One Shipping Container at a Time," 24 Oct. 2018 Google has been rapidly iterating Chrome OS on an aggressive schedule of updates every six weeks for a long time now, and sometimes has pushed out beta updates that aren’t really ready for consumer use. — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, "The Pixel Slate: first look at Google’s new tablet," 9 Oct. 2018 The new Paperwhite, like the other Kindles before it, is the latest refinement of a formula that Amazon has been iterating on for more than half a decade now. — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, "Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2018) review: the new best-seller," 7 Nov. 2018 Among them are convening cross-functional teams; testing, refining and iterating throughout the process; and focusing on the full user experience. — Sarah Medford, WSJ, "Consulting Firm McKinsey & Co. Takes On Design Strategy," 25 Oct. 2018 Hammel has been iterating on it for over a decade, and has never repeated a recipe. — Antonio Basada, Condé Nast Traveler, "Best Brunch in Chicago," 3 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'iterate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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