How to Use source code in a Sentence

source code

noun
  • So, more people are looking at the source code.
    IEEE Spectrum, 6 Sep. 2023
  • An open model means that all the source code of the model is open.
    Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Modern business runs on open source code, and npm is the largest source of that code.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Without source code to work from, each game had to be re-developed.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Anyone can check Telegram's open source code and see there were no changes.
    Mia Sato, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Turns out the reason was Volition lost the source code at some point.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 14 Oct. 2019
  • And our worst attributes are sort of being hardwired into its source code.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
  • What’s the role of the programmer in a future without source code?
    Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The source code leak exposed around 500,000 lines of code.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But that would require the vendors to open up their source code, which is messy and intricate.
    Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
  • At first, Google released its source code and then gave demos of the new OS.
    Verge Staff, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2018
  • Included in the theft, the group claims, are schematics and source code for drivers and firmware.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2022
  • With 37 million users, GitHub is the largest host of source code in the world.
    Sidney Fussell, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2020
  • However, programmers have been trying to find ways to keep leaked source code up.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Pushback for a proposal that would force the smartphone makers to share source code.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2026
  • This work was partially funded by Voatz, which gave the firm access to its source code.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The researchers found the websites’ source code on Git, a platform coders use to manage their work.
    Huo Jingnan, NPR, 6 June 2024
  • This makes its source code legally and freely available to end-users who can use it to create new products and services.
    Iwa Salami, Quartz, 24 May 2021
  • Knyazev’s team took these ideas and wrote their own software from scratch, since Ren’s team didn’t publicize their source code.
    Quanta Magazine, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The browser is based on open source code from Google through one of the tech giant’s projects called Chromium.
    Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The genius behind the bot is Reddit user oppai_suika, who was kind enough to also post the source code.
    Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2021
  • To that end, the source code of a password manager could be open and available to anyone to examine.
    Karen Renaud and Norah Alkaldi, WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • But the source code for Yuzu and Citra have both already been pulled down from GitHub.
    Sean Hollister, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The open source code that powers your apps and services is both a strength and a vulnerability.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Dowd had found a bug in open-source code from Mozilla even before the San Bernardino events.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 14 Apr. 2021
  • But Cleopatra turned out to be a catfish, and the dude behind the account leaked Parthia’s source code.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 June 2021
  • Static analysis mainly finds errors in source code.
    Matthew Kayser, jsonline.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Apart from a massive leak of 90 minutes of game footage and its source code, information about the game has been scant.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 17 Sep. 2023
  • In the case of SolarWinds, the attackers were able to do more than simply view source code.
    Robert McMillan, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Stallman’s position was that the source code to software should be free for everyone to use, learn from, and improve.
    David Siegel, Fortune, 3 July 2026

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