How to Use application programming interface in a Sentence

application programming interface

noun

• OpenAI said there are no changes to its application programming interface.
  — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
• By sending millions of queries through application programming interfaces, attackers can collect large datasets.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026
• Both of the bugs affecting users of the Google+ site this year were found on the same application programming interface, or API.
  — John D. McKinnon, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
• But the state now publishes legislative data through a public application programming interface — essentially the tool that lets apps talk to each other.
  — Matt Wing, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2026
• The agent then calls a function that connects to the application programming interface (API) of the airline’s flight booking platform.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Nov. 2024
• Clubhouse didn't limit how many rooms a single account could stream from at once, for example, so anyone could create an application programming interface to stream every public channel at the same time.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 26 Feb. 2021
• Nearly every page of Column’s website shows code that can be used with its application programming interface, or API.
  — Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• The more technically inclined might use an application programming interface or command line interface.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Nov. 2025
• The group found the posts by drawing a 1% sample of all posts from Twitter’s API, or application programming interface.
  — Time, 19 July 2023
• Twitter is ending free access to its application programming interface, or API.
  — Jon-Patrick Allem, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023
• The protest is over how the company plans to reshuffle pricing for its application programming interface, or API, which is the code that allows third parties to build apps.
  — Michael Dobuski, ABC News, 13 June 2023
• Early this year, the Supreme Court will hear an important case that will determine the legal status of application programming interfaces under copyright law.
  — Charles Duan, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2020
• Her specialty was GraphQL, a query language at the heart of Twitter’s application programming interface.
  — Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• For more than a decade, application programming interfaces (APIs) have served as the backbone of digital innovation.
  — Baptiste Parravicini, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2026
• These tools allow the gathering of data from diverse sources such as databases, file systems and application programming interfaces (API).
  — Anujkumarsinh Donvir, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
• Wealth platforms today are ecosystems, and application programming interfaces (APIs) are the glue that holds those ecosystems together.
  — Bill Capuzzi, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• Businesses that sign up as members will be able to connect their existing tools to the data as well through a Web application programming interface (API).
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2019
• To further simplify the shift, coders could take advantage of application programming interfaces (APIs).
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
• If the data and insights need to be delivered synchronously, then APIs (application programming interface) can be leveraged.
  — Prashanth Southekal, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• Each of those decisions is an application programming interface (API) call, and usually several.
  — Teodor Calin, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• That gives the startup visibility into who is using its application programming interface, or API, and who is most active in their consumption.
  — Hayden Field, CNBC, 20 Mar. 2025
• The group found different types of vulnerabilities depending on what level of access an attacker has to a voter's device or to the Voatz servers and application programming interface.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 13 Feb. 2020
• What's notable about the model is that Meta is making its application programming interface (API) available through a developer portal.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 9 July 2026
• The case is about the ownership and implementation of application programming interfaces (APIs).
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 20 Nov. 2019
• By viewing the website's source code, Zveare noticed that messages sent through the form passed through Bluspark's servers using an application programming interface, or API.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Jan. 2026
• Reddit users were outraged by the platform's plan to start charging millions of dollars in fees for some third-party apps to continue having access to the site's application programming interface (API).
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 12 June 2023
• The costs—egress fees associated with data migration, application programming interface (API) fees and the like—have only become stiffer and more unpredictable.
  — Dave Mosley, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• Anthropic used data selected from one million application programming interface transcripts from mostly businesses and software developers for its report.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
• The startup released its first product, known as Tinker, in October, which is an application programming interface that allows researchers and developers to fine-tune AI models.
  — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
• The fake Windows update is merely being displayed from the internet domain, and abusing the Fullscreen application programming interface (API) in browsers to take over the entire screen space.
  — PC Magazine, 12 Nov. 2025