as in corrects
to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from
the computer program ran much faster after it was debugged
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Since 2013, Romana has specialized in advanced restorative and cosmetic dentistry that corrects or restores or enhances smiles.—
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Which is why receiving feedback, especially the kind that calls us out or corrects us, can be so difficult.—
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However, Microsoft 365 uses a technique called the Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS), which rewrites the return path so that the message still passes SPF checks.—
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To make sense of it, the team used a powerful mathematical tool known as a multimode Bogoliubov transformation, a technique that rewrites the system’s equations in a way that makes hidden patterns visible and the problem solvable.—
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“Debugs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debugs. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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