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Recent Examples of debug Other firms including Alphabet Inc.’s Google are also building tools to help programmers streamline the process of writing and debugging code. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 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 The remaining time was spent collecting information, reading documentation, helping coworkers, or debugging. IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2025 When code doesn't work as expected, debugging requires understanding what the code is actually doing—precisely the knowledge that vibe coding tends to sidestep. Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for debug
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  • In the past two decades, nearly two dozen mostly red states have amended their safe-haven laws, which allow people to anonymously give up their infants for adoption through face-to-face surrenders at hospitals and fire stations, to also permit people to surrender babies in these boxes.
    Alana Semuels, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In addition, information related to wait times in September has been amended to clarify its weight as a data point.
    Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • In 2023, the two-time Super Bowl champion missed Pac-12 media day to address a blood clot in his right leg and another surgery to correct curved toes on his left foot.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The Yankees had mostly corrected their poor fundamental mistakes since the trade deadline, but in the most important game of the season, several miscues helped put New York in a deep early deficit.
    Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Amir Mahmoud, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile in Lagos, Africa’s largest and most influential fashion week is rewriting the runway rulebook.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
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  • Your curl pattern will look more defined, and the product will also work to detangle your hair while remedying breakage.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Restaurants with more than 30 demerits are required to fix the worst problems immediately and remedy the rest within 48 hours.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • How do the Giants reform the image of SF into a free-agent destination?
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Members of Congress are also working to reform the visa, which has largely gone unchanged since its creation in 1990.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Debug.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debug. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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