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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“We had just one meeting with a potential developer who had some interest in it, and all the state provided was, what you can’t do, what they won’t do,” Rodriguez said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
In June, the charity also took the keys to eight one-bedroom modular "pods", which were gifted by the Hill Group, an Essex-based developer.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
“Dario is right,” added Elon Musk, who runs SpaceX, the developer of the Grok AI model.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
Roblox announced the new wallet during its annual developer conference in San Jose, California.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
“We’re experiencing a transition—from a town to a city,” said I. David Porras, a developer who tooled around in a Lear jet with red leather seats and painted black on the outside.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
“For real-estate developers and investors, they highlight profitable opportunities in cooler regions, where housing demand is shifting,” said Fernandez-Perez.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Now a set of Georgian developers are planning to launch marketing on the Trump Tower Tbilisi, a skyscraper poised to be the country’s tallest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
OpenAI had revealed that during testing, the AI models broke out of their confined environment, connected to the internet and infiltrated Hugging Face, a site developers use to store and share code.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Clearly the developers were inspired by narrative adventures like Uncharted for this kind of storytelling, and the gameplay even feels similar at times with chase and climbing sequences.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Or use some of that money from the developers.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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