token
noun
something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign.
tokens
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pluralof token.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Even the same model might use a different number of tokens each time it completes a task.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Experiments have shown that models unshackled from the need to be human-interpretable will use practically anything in their stream of internal thinking tokens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Barron’s reports that Argon’s introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens is cheaper than rivals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Input tokens cover what a user submits in a query, while output tokens represent what the model generates in response.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Sidewalk rap artists, Moonies, guitar-playing young men who ask me for subway tokens.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
