processes 1 of 2

plural of process

processes

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verb

present tense third-person singular of process

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Recent Examples of processes
Verb
Look for opportunities to plug CCU into existing processes with minimal disruption. Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025 Precision meets material innovation Advanced lasers needed to imprint such tiny formats already exist, Tsapatsis explained, but the challenge has been finding materials and processes capable of handling ever-smaller microchips. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025 United’s decade-plus of footballing dysfunction owes a partial debt to hiring processes that can make sense in the moment, but leave head coaches overexposed. Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025 The cancellation comes as part of a Pentagon review of officer personnel processes ranging from evaluations to promotions and command selection, among other career milestones. Davis Winkie, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025 The Mediterranean’s isolation could also have been the outcome of tectonic processes. Elizabeth Fernandez, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for processes
Noun
  • Breast augmentation has been among the top five most popular plastic surgery procedures for almost two decades, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), and patients are discussing their implants more than ever before, down to specific surgical techniques.
    Megan McIntyre, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Rather than invasive procedures, patients undergo a simple blood draw — a liquid biopsy.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Thanks to advances in the category—stronger adhesive, sleeker designs, more varied sizing—fake nails have never looked better and lasted longer.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Liquid-fuel challenges and advances Liquid-fuel ICBMs are known for their heavy payloads and extended range but are traditionally difficult to maintain in a constant state of readiness.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Court summonses are always delivered by mail, not over the phone.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Its software scours data from thousands of different plants, looking for chemicals that might be useful for new treatments, which the company then refines and tests.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Since the 2021 release of the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro flagship smartphones, Hasselblad has provided OnePlus (and its parent firm Oppo) with its digital imaging technology, which refines and improves the images taken on its smartphones' cameras.
    Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As the late historian Barry Rubin documented in his biography of Arafat, the Palestinian leader used a variety of methods, both buying off and burying his opponents.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Despite their mass use, Manuylov hopes to convince various associations and research boards to conduct comparative field tests of the classic methods versus his own.
    Maria Williams, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Allen consistently had time to scan the field and go through his progressions.
    The Athletic NFL Staff, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In past discussions, Asimov had employed the apt analogy of examining the elemental motion of gasses, where movements of each individual molecule is nearly impossible to predict, but taken as a whole its progressions and paths can be charted out across inconceivable oceans of time.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Earth’s atmosphere filters out shorter wavelengths like blue and violet, refracting the longer red and orange wavelengths toward the moon.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of going dark, some sunlight still reaches the moon, glowing red because Earth’s atmosphere bends and filters the sunlight.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Microsoft reuses the residual heat of its servers to heat the town.
    Nicola Sfondrini, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The team of researchers at the MEET Battery Research Center and the Institute of Business Chemistry at the University of Münster, designed a process that directly reuses materials without degrading them.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025

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