developer
Americannoun
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developers
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a person or thing that develops or innovates.
a software developer.
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Photography. a reducing agent or solution for developing a film or the like.
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a person who invests in and develops the urban or suburban potentialities of real estate, especially by subdividing the land into home sites and then building houses and selling them.
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Shipbuilding. a person who lays out at full size the lines of a vessel and prepares templates from them.
noun
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a person or thing that develops something, esp a person who develops property
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photog a solution of a chemical reducing agent that converts the latent image recorded in the emulsion of a film or paper into a visible image
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For web developer Yohan Mebrouk, the timeline is a sign of how serious the attack was.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
The electric air-taxi developer raised its sales forecast, but certification and cash needs remain central to its longer-term prospects.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath and billionaire developer Rick Caruso also considering bids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Tech heavyweights DeepSeek, a developer of AI models, and flash-memory maker Yangtze Memory Technologies are preparing for their stock-market debuts in coming months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
In any case, despite the anti- climactic results, the test results were interpreted by the AEC as validating Livermore’s role as the developer of “new ideas” in thermonuclear technology.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
The Pentagon’s AI plans exclude one of the largest model developers, Anthropic, after the department earlier this year labeled the San Francisco company a national security threat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
ElevenOneEleven will house as many as 500 people after it is completed in late 2028, and will include 52 units with subsidized affordable rents, the developers said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
"The congressional scrutiny could accelerate demands for AI safety standards, independent model evaluations and greater accountability for data centre developers," she added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
Instead they’re forecasting that spending will continue but costs will rise — and the buildout will shift to states and localities that make deals with developers or are generally more welcoming to the centers.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Later on, developers realized how valuable the land was, sitting right on the river, with easy access to the city.
From "Monday's Not Coming" by Tiffany D. Jackson
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