as in to amend
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 debug
Consider, for instance, a coding copilot that assists developers and collaborates with other agents to debug, refactor, and optimize software in real time.
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Mallik Tatipamula, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
After graduating from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science, Bezos landed a gig debugging lines of code at a telecommunications startup, Fitel, before working as a product manager for Banker’s Trust, now part of Deutsche Bank.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 9 Oct. 2025
When new features are developed at AI velocity, those service contracts can break, and debugging the resulting failures often falls on operations.
—Ronak Desai, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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
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Mallik Tatipamula, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
After graduating from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science, Bezos landed a gig debugging lines of code at a telecommunications startup, Fitel, before working as a product manager for Banker’s Trust, now part of Deutsche Bank.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 9 Oct. 2025
When new features are developed at AI velocity, those service contracts can break, and debugging the resulting failures often falls on operations.
—Ronak Desai, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for debug
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The agency’s authority to investigate stems from Senate Bill 553, which was amended to broaden the scope of employers, including law enforcement agencies, to maintain workplace violence prevention plans.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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Lucas offered to amend the ordinance, removing the requirement for detention facilities, as well as for other facilities or buildings paid for with public safety sales tax money.—
Ben Wheeler,
Kansas City Star,
7 Jan. 2026
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This story has been updated to correct the number of missiles Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia fired Thursday night.—
Kosta Gak,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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In its October earnings conference call, Puma CEO Arthur Hoeld ticked off a list of things Puma needs to correct.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Ryan Anderson,
Arkansas Online,
10 Nov. 2025
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Satellite television brought a plethora of choice into the living room, Western brands began to appear in shops and, for a burgeoning middle class, the definition of success was suddenly rewritten.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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The state’s latest energy plan fails to recognize and remedy this and portends a bleak, costly energy future, not to mention more pollution and higher health care costs.—
Anshul Gupta,
New York Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Instead, Bevza felt a pressing need to remedy the barrenness of the Ukrainian fashion scene at the time.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
30 Dec. 2025
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The liberal impulse — insistence that injustice isn’t cured by patience, willingness to reform systems that calcify into maladministration — can keep institutions from becoming the archives of old hierarchies.—
Robert T.F. Downes,
Hartford Courant,
6 Jan. 2026
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And no, that’s not scaffolding law, which the city recently reformed, but an arcane state labor law that has exponentially inflated the cost of construction beyond reason for decades.—
Elizabeth Crowley,
New York Daily News,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Debug.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debug. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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