developer
Americannoun
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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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On Tuesday, Truell showcased the company’s latest 1.5-trillion-parameter model at Cursor’s Compile developer day, trained from scratch on over 100,000 Nvidia GPUs.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 19, 2026
Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft have each recently hosted their big software developer events, and all of them punted on adding age estimation to their platforms.
From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026
It also is wise for a developer like Anthropic to take the potential danger of what it is doing into account as it develops cutting-edge AI tools.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026
Maté, a freelance business developer, benefits from tax cuts.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026
Even if the big guy is actually a five-foot-three, flamboyantly dressed land developer with stupendously gelled hair.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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