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a usually fixed or ordered series of actions or events leading to a result
followed the procedure for replacing the broken part exactly as the owner's manual instructed
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Recent Examples of procedure
As acetone is recyclable and uncontaminated, the procedure permits full solvent recovery, promoting low-waste, environmentally friendly production.
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Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2025
An audit of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority last November revealed that lax accounting procedures resulted in the failure to reclaim millions of dollars in cash advances to contractors.
—Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
The City Council also asked for more training and improved policy and procedures on handling similar situations and Councilmember Hon Lien walked back the censure process that began earlier this week.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
Hackers are now taking advantage of LastPass’s after-death account handover procedures to dupe people into providing their login details.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
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Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2025
An audit of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority last November revealed that lax accounting procedures resulted in the failure to reclaim millions of dollars in cash advances to contractors.
—Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
The City Council also asked for more training and improved policy and procedures on handling similar situations and Councilmember Hon Lien walked back the censure process that began earlier this week.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
Hackers are now taking advantage of LastPass’s after-death account handover procedures to dupe people into providing their login details.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for procedure
Noun
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But the thought processes are cool, the way guys maneuver the game is cool.—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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The book also delves into his creative process as well as Dando’s Forrest Gump-like relationships with assorted celebrities (Johnny Depp, Kate Moss, Milla Jovovich, Elizabeth Moses and others) and a non-relationship with Courtney Love, despite, Dando writes, her attempts otherwise.—
Gary Graff,
Billboard,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday will set the level of its benchmark interest rate, adjusting a major policy lever for the first time since a government shutdown sharply restricted the release of gold-standard federal data about the economy.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
29 Oct. 2025
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These policies attempt to limit international trade to create less competition for domestic industries through the use of tariffs or import quotas.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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There’s one specific method that homeowners or stagers tend to use involving vanilla that is best to avoid, Eichstadt told the outlet.—
Natalia Senanayake,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Scientists have developed a new method that removes toxic pollutants from wastewater.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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To learn more about our reporting and testing processes, read our complete reviews process and methodology page.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
30 Oct. 2025
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See more details on ABC News' survey methodology here.—
Emily Guskin,
ABC News,
30 Oct. 2025
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Lea has built a culture of belief while competing against programs with more resources.—
Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
30 Oct. 2025
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DePriest won a full drama scholarship to the University of Oklahoma and after college acted on stages in Dallas and hosted two local TV shows, Ladies First and Maggie and Her Friends, a kids program with puppets.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Oct. 2025
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The approach mirrors Xbox’s Play Anywhere strategy and recent messaging that strict exclusivity is outdated.—
Alex Harrington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
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While the Hong Kong listing should enhance the company’s liquidity and visibility, Zephirin added that a valuation re-rating is unlikely without meaningful gains in capital efficiency or strategy execution.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
28 Oct. 2025
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And that remains their main source of concern — that the challenge of adapting to a third different manager and a third approach (albeit one similar in style to Nuno) might prove to be too much.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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This approach can reduce the overhead coordination of traditional innovation processes while maximizing the probability of generating top-tier ideas from the start.—
François Candelon,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
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But of course, novelists conjure and dream up the rest—Larette is someone who came to me way back in 2017, a woman who sang to her husband and whose life revolves around music, so that first few lines came easily.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Should the Argentine currency in Monday’s trading session climb at a similar magnitude to that seen in cryptocurrency markets in the wake of the election, the US could be on course for hundreds of millions of dollars in gains.—
Daniel Flatley,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Procedure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/procedure. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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