Claude

American

[klawd, klohd] / klɔd, kloʊd /

noun

Albert, 1899–1983, U.S. biologist, born in Belgium: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974.
Also Claud. a male given name: from a Roman family name meaning “lame.”

Claude British

/ klɔːd, klod /

noun

Albert. 1898–1983, US cell biologist, born in Belgium: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1974) for work on microsomes and mitochondria

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A particular challenge is Claude Code, a magic box that takes your words in plain English and converts them into real software before your eyes.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2026

Still, she was surprised recently when she asked Claude to perform a simple task: adding keywords to the top of her résumé—and it responded by altering the document in multiple ways she hadn’t requested.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

The company was on an amazing run of publicity in general—all of which revolved around people liking its chatbot Claude a lot.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2026

Yes, some of these are companies that have dealt with intense scrutiny from Wall Street regarding their ability to compete with Anthropic’s Claude tool and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

He and Claude had apparently finished their discussion, and he’d fallen asleep on his desk.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

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