program
noun
a plan of action to accomplish a specified end.
programmed
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past participleof program.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof program.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
programnouna plan of action to accomplish a specified end.
Example Sentences
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Of the individual bills programmed this season, one especially inspired combination warrants particular attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
On the surface, it seems like harmless video game humor, and I’m sure we’ve all had encounters with actual humans that resembled interacting with tautological machines programmed with limited responses.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
The excess immune cells can then die through apoptosis, a controlled form of programmed cell death that allows the body to remove unneeded, damaged or cancerous cells without causing inflammation or harming nearby tissue.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Agentic AI, in particular, will be central to software development, Huang said, referring to systems programmed to be autonomous and perform tasks without supervision.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
We may be like the genetically different lines of mice, or like Hayflick’s different tissue-culture lines, programmed to die after a predetermined number of days, clocked by their genomes.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
