programmed

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Definition

The act of force-feeding instructions into a computer's brain so it stops asking questions and just does what you want. Whether you're configuring software or scheduling events, programming transforms chaos into compliance—at least until the code breaks at 3 a.m.

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The engineer programmed the system to automatically reject emails containing Comic Sans font.

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