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as in schedule
a listing of things to be presented or considered (as at a concert or play)
the program will tell us the scheduled order of musical numbers
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Relevance
2
as in plan
a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective
we need to come up with a program to deal with kids skipping school
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variants
also programme
as in to scheme
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Recent Examples of program
Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Jan. 2026
Cut spending by slashing state programs?
—Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 9 Jan. 2026
Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 24 Oct. 2025
The Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which can be used to program its boards, saw over 36 million downloads in just the past year.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Users choose the program before beginning a session, allowing the experience to match their immediate needs.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Jan. 2026
Cut spending by slashing state programs?
—Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 9 Jan. 2026
Verb
Through much trial and error, Flores was able to teach himself how to program the skeletons to move their jaws and heads in time with prerecorded dialogue or songs of his choosing.
—Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 24 Oct. 2025
The Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which can be used to program its boards, saw over 36 million downloads in just the past year.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for program
Noun
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More information on movie screenings and schedules is available on the Aurora Fox Arts Center's website.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Here is the match schedule for games in KC, as well as information about tickets, the FIFA fan fest, team base camps and area transportation.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2026
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Dumas has worked for Valero for four years but just moved to the Benicia location from Arizona a year ago, just a few months before the energy company announced a possible plan to cease or idle operations.—
Amanda Hari,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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The plan is to develop a cost-effective, energy-efficient technology for making innovative plastics based on polybutylene succinate (PBS) which are made entirely out of organic waste.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Jan. 2026
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Black people cast and produced to look stupid and foolish as standard operating procedure.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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The judge has ordered prosecutors to bring in an Altoona police officer to testify about the department's arrest procedures, and the witness doesn't have to be an officer who was at the scene.—
Lisa Rozner,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2026
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After scheming his way through training by an ever-growing web of lies that included a cancer treatment, Seth tried to redeem himself by taking a bullet to save Nolan’s (Nathan Fillion) life at the cost of his lower leg, which was shattered and later amputated.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
20 Jan. 2026
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Or simply just changing the play-calling and possibly scheme (not Ejiro Evero)?—
Mike Kaye
January 20,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Jan. 2026
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As stories piled up about internal anger and legislative threats, the White House moved from background grumbling to explicit public signaling about who controls the President’s legislative agenda.—
Jason Brett,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The latter appeared to be an explicit show of support in the wake of the chaos and anxiety unleashed in the North Star State over the past few weeks as ICE agents have descended on Minneapolis to enforce the White House’s aggressive immigration agenda.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
20 Jan. 2026
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The future performance of any investment or wealth management strategy, including those recommended by us, may not be profitable or suitable or prove successful.—
Heather L. Locus,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Riva is focused on refining Saks’ and Neiman’s buying strategy including assortment selection, category performance, sell-through and replenishment.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
23 Jan. 2026
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After the ‘23 season, Cignetti accepted the head coaching job at Indiana University, and, because of the then-new lax transfer policy, took more than a dozen of his JMU players with him to Bloomington.—
Mac Engel
January 9,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Jan. 2026
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The administration has quietly directed diplomats to press allies on restricting inflows, enhancing deportation mechanisms, and ending policies perceived as favoring migrants over citizens.—
Daniel Ross Goodman,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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Keep scrolling for more drinkware designed to save space without sacrificing style.—
Jeaneen Russell,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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Cissie Graham Lynch, a senior advisor at Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said the fight over women’s sports is rooted in biblical truth as the Supreme Court heard arguments in cases involving laws designed to protect female athletes.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
14 Jan. 2026
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