as in amending
to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from
the computer program ran much faster after it was debugged
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Recent Examples of debugging
Performance That Relies On Deep Institutional Reasoning Frontier models are extraordinary at problems that are truly novel, ambiguous and wide—writing sonnets, solving math olympiad problems, debugging Python code.
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Anshul Gupta,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
Arize tests and monitors RAG pipelines as well as the agents and applications built on them—debugging and hunting down errors and hallucinations.
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Erik German,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
Whatever used to be fun (coding your first game, say) is replaced by something that’s not (debugging your code).
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
Some are conventional, such as the boards dedicated to debugging code or trading cryptocurrency.
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Mike Dobuski,
ABC News,
4 Feb. 2026
Today developers are positioning agents as a more advanced form of chatbot, capable of autonomously making decisions and completing routine tasks, such as navigating a Web browser or debugging computer code.
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Webb Wright,
Scientific American,
18 Aug. 2025
In such systems based on multiple agents, some agents assist in generating code and some in testing and debugging it.
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Julius Černiauskas,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
While the program will gather feedback about tools, performance tuning, debugging utilities, and plenty of other aspects of game development, it’s also designed for input from game studios that aren’t shipping games on Xbox.
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Tom Warren,
The Verge,
2 Oct. 2024
Anshul Gupta,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
Arize tests and monitors RAG pipelines as well as the agents and applications built on them—debugging and hunting down errors and hallucinations.
—
Erik German,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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
Some are conventional, such as the boards dedicated to debugging code or trading cryptocurrency.
—
Mike Dobuski,
ABC News,
4 Feb. 2026
Today developers are positioning agents as a more advanced form of chatbot, capable of autonomously making decisions and completing routine tasks, such as navigating a Web browser or debugging computer code.
—
Webb Wright,
Scientific American,
18 Aug. 2025
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
While the program will gather feedback about tools, performance tuning, debugging utilities, and plenty of other aspects of game development, it’s also designed for input from game studios that aren’t shipping games on Xbox.
—
Tom Warren,
The Verge,
2 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for debugging
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Disparate impact also lives under the Fair Housing Act, a separate law the Bureau cannot rewrite by amending Regulation B.
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Michelle Ford, a soil scientist and wildlife biologist who owns EcoMaps, said Silverman over the past two months had addressed her concerns about wetlands protection by amending plans.
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Cut to Johnson attempting an overhead serve with his pickleball partner Candace (Mary Steenburgen) halting him mid leap and correcting his serve to underhand.
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Sometimes, the market is just correcting an ownership imbalance.
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The goal is to help users spend less time manually rewriting drafts.
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Halle Berry is rewriting the script on aging out loud, and creatine is now part of her playbook.
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In its letter, the LAPPL said after a thorough review of communications between the city there was nothing specific on reforming police oversight, police discipline or any other matter about the LAPD.
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Expanding low-cost finance, increasing local-currency lending and reforming international debt systems could significantly lower borrowing costs, said Nkhonjera.
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Starmer is historically unpopular in Britain after a series of scandals and policy missteps, with critics accusing him of lacking a political vision for remedying the country’s stagnant post-Brexit economy.
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Taking the time to figure out where the block is happening and remedying it in a gentle manner is always the best way to go.
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Come up with strategies for rectifying the issue, as needed, as well.
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Crucially, the panel report should also outline the pathway for rectifying the rule violations and set benchmarks for monitoring progress towards correction.
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“Debugging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debugging. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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