How to Use debug in a Sentence
debug
verb- She's been hired to write and debug computer programs.
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So the researchers debugged the genome by hand.
—Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026
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But at that point, will humans still be able to understand or debug them?
—Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2025
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The program couldn’t be debugged, and Amazon dropped the project.
—Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 26 May 2023
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You are not paid to debug the workflow that broke at 9pm on a Tuesday.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
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The Bread Code When things go wrong, debugging can be tricky.
—Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2024
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The engineers who debug the unglamorous code no one will ever see.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
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When something breaks, an engineer debugs it.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
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Before heading out on a multiday road trip, try some midrange jaunts to help debug your process and systems.
—Washington Post, 8 July 2021
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The architecture needs to be performant, easy to manage and easy to debug.
—Jaspreet Singh, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
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Whatever used to be fun (coding your first game, say) is replaced by something that’s not (debugging your code).
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
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If a step errored out for any reason, Argo could retry the step and provide us with logs to better debug the issue.
—Jackie Ha, Forbes, 28 June 2022
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From rewriting Nick Cave songs to debugging code, AI has a lot to offer.
—Sebastien Bardoz, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
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Microsoft found that without this approach, models are quite notably bad at debugging tasks.
—Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 11 Apr. 2025
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In such systems based on multiple agents, some agents assist in generating code and some in testing and debugging it.
—Julius Černiauskas, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
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Company engineers use this mode to debug microcode before chips are publicly released.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2020
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And this data must not be retained, including via logging or for debugging, after the response is returned to the user.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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The model generates code, explains complex functions, and helps debug errors.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Feb. 2026
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Players engage spatial reasoning and strategic thinking skills, and persistence and debugging pay off to get the blocks to fit just right.
—Michelle Z. Donahue, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
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One of the standout features of Visual Studio is its powerful debugging tools.
—New Atlas, 14 July 2024
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Since its April 15 debut, the IRS has been debugging and adding features to the program.
—Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 26 Apr. 2020
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The issue is that iteration without understanding starts to look more like guessing than debugging.
—Ishraq Khan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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This clear separation reduces variance, simplifies debugging and ensures the assistant doesn’t veer off track in the middle of a task.
—Alan Nichol, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
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Requests to complete some form of pre-employment test have also been used, along with debugging exercises that execute non-standard scripts.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
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The debugging procedures proved effective enough that the department was able to launch the form ten days ahead of its December 1 target date.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Apple refused to provide debugging tools and would answer questions from engineers with suggestions rather than direct fixes.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
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Writing simple implementations, debugging messy edge cases or poking around in code that didn't quite behave as expected.
—Daniel Gumucio, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
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In a blog post, the company said that one of its employees was debugging an issue with the billing system and accidentally took more servers offline than intended.
—The Hive, 3 Mar. 2017
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Research shows nearly half of developers don’t fully trust AI output and often spend extra time debugging it.
—Vikas Mendhe, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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Some are conventional, such as the boards dedicated to debugging code or trading cryptocurrency.
—Mike Dobuski, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2026
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