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.
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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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No developer has been selected to build the project and plans don’t specify what the housing should look like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
First launched in 1996 on the original Sony PlayStation by Japanese developer Capcom, Resident Evil was a sensation.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The ChatGPT developer warns that the AI industry won’t be able to scale at maximum speed much longer.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
That was particularly true in areas like saltier snacks, said Jocelyn Carter, senior strategic marketing director for private label at ingredient developer Kerry.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Here she wouldn't be Dimple Shah, wayward, Americanized daughter of immigrant parents; she’d be just Dimple Shah, future web developer.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
The unit count could still grow because the state grants density bonuses to developers who include enough affordable units to meet certain thresholds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
He also anticipates that companies involved in project development of behind-the-meter systems will see a flurry of transactions with data-center developers and AI companies.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
His remarks follow claims posted on social media by former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon that AI developers believe the technology "could kill us all by the end of the decade".
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
I think app developers have yet to take advantage of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
If you are like me your eyes about pop out of your head at how quick the developers dozered down the trees.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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