Noun How does the election process work? Learning a foreign language can be a long process. We're remodeling our house. The whole process is expected to take a few months. Breathing and the circulation of blood are life processes. a bony process on the foot
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When Cleveland was going through the draft process, kicker was undoubtedly one of its needs. Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2022 So our story walks through that process, about how police fill out a search warrant, get it to a judge, get it to Google, and eventually get a list of suspects. Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2022 The plans also still must go through the planning and zoning process. Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022 Gina walked me through the process and gave me her guy who does her decks. Angelique Jackson, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022 In those instances, Cloudflare waited through a legal process before blocking similarly hateful forums like 8chan in 2019 or The Daily Stormer in 2017. Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2022 The Met has been through the repatriation process before. Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2022 Solid waste is dehydrated, dried, and combusted into ashes, while liquid waste is treated through a biological purification process. Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2022 After walking through the process of the still, visitors are offered a taste of a fresh batch of 120-proof moonshine, fresh off the still.courier-journal.com, 6 Sep. 2022
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Two sweeteners in particular, sucralose and saccharin (found in Sweet ‘N Low), altered some people's ability to process glucose. Aria Bendix, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2022 Stroud’s ability to process and diagnose have always been his greatest assets. Nathan Baird, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2022 Having less white matter can slow the brain's ability to process information, pay attention and remember. Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022 Domain Logistics, a distribution company that works with the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) in Canada, was hacked on August 5, limiting OCS’s ability to process orders and deliver weed products to stores and customers around Ontario.WIRED, 22 Aug. 2022 Where AirPods Pro win out more handily is their ability to process noise-canceling frequencies in more dynamic scenarios. Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 28 July 2022 For starters, cognitive abilities gradually decline with age, meaning that our ability to process and integrate all the incoming information described above takes longer and is less efficient. Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 21 July 2022 Passive neglect teaches children that their feelings aren't important, and can leave them without the ability to process their emotions properly. Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 5 July 2022 Detonation of the bomb, which is hard-wired into Ethereum's code, would have wrecked havoc on network's ability to process transactions. Taylor Locke, Fortune, 30 June 2022
Adjective
The One Drop has durable sides and a base made from REGRIND Silicone, a material created by reclaiming and upcycling post-process silicone scraps that would otherwise go to waste. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 19 July 2022 This may have positioned several large cities that chose to pre-process ballots to deliver election results earlier than expected. Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2020 State Democrats and Republicans both agree that local election workers should be allowed to pre-process ballots early. Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2020 The state can’t yet process unemployment claims from independent contractors and the self-employed, even though the federal government has temporarily extended benefits to those workers, St. Louis Public Radio reported.USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2020 The recent rise of memes seeming to make light of the Wuhan virus or international tensions offers a glimpse into how teenagers learn about and process world events. Nicole Daniels, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020 Knowing that people process things differently and that's OK. Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 13 Sep. 2019 The Google Assistant, for example, can already now process multiple requests at once. Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2018 People process things differently and at different rates. Richard Asa, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
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The coffin will then process 1½ miles to Wellington Arch in Hyde Park in central London, arriving at 1 p.m., before leaving the capital city. Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2022 Before the funeral, the Queen's coffin will process from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey. Emily Burack, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2022 Among the concerns the market is trying to process: a potential breakdown in cross-border trading. Joe Wallace, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 The government has leased four floating terminals—giant ships that dock near industrial ports and can process LNG back into gas—and a fifth is being commissioned by a private consortium. Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022 The 19 people were brought to the Coast Guard’s base where agents from the Customs and Border Protection Office will process them. Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2022 Our lab investigates insect flight and vision, with the goal of finding out how such tiny creatures can process visual information to perform challenging behaviors, such as escaping your swatter so quickly. Jamie Theobald, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2022 Samsung says that its new SmartSSD can process data 50% faster than the previous generation. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 July 2022 The salt content in the ocean is much higher than what the human body can process, and there can be deadly consequences if overconsumed. Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 24 July 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
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Middle English proces, from Anglo-French procés, from Latin processus, from procedere