How to Use debug in a Sentence
debug
verb- She's been hired to write and debug computer programs.
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The program couldn’t be debugged, and Amazon dropped the project.
—Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 26 May 2023
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Next, make sure your browser isn’t set to debug scripts.
—Patrick Marshall, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
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Since its April 15 debut, the IRS has been debugging and adding features to the program.
—Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 26 Apr. 2020
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From rewriting Nick Cave songs to debugging code, AI has a lot to offer.
—Sebastien Bardoz, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
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If a step errored out for any reason, Argo could retry the step and provide us with logs to better debug the issue.
—Jackie Ha, Forbes, 28 June 2022
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Before heading out on a multiday road trip, try some midrange jaunts to help debug your process and systems.
—Washington Post, 8 July 2021
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One more thing: The system debugged itself after Bernard’s trip into the Cradle.
—William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2018
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The architecture needs to be performant, easy to manage and easy to debug.
—Jaspreet Singh, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
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JavaScript is also more complex and difficult to debug.
—Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2017
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Players engage spatial reasoning and strategic thinking skills, and persistence and debugging pay off to get the blocks to fit just right.
—Michelle Z. Donahue, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
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Launching in the small, isolated market would allow OneWeb to test and debug the system without disrupting service to a large number of customers.
—Jeannette Lee Falsey, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Aug. 2017
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Staff from the Canadian plant have been spending time with the team from Kuka to debug and refine the manufacturing processes before the equipment is shipped out.
—Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
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In a blog post, the company said that one of its employees was debugging an issue with the billing system and accidentally took more servers offline than intended.
—The Hive, 3 Mar. 2017
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Company engineers use this mode to debug microcode before chips are publicly released.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2020
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This isn’t like Apple or Microsoft rolling out beta versions of their software for early-adopting users to debug on their own time; a failure of that technology usually can only harm the user.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2021
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At the heart of it was a series of demos that tried to show just how primitive the available tools were for various problems—circuit design, computer animation, debugging algorithms—and what better ones might look like.
—James Somers, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
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The team had just competed in MakeMIT’s hackathon—a competition in which teams of students spend 15 hours designing, coding, constructing, testing and debugging ambitious projects.
—Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
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The team had just competed in MakeMIT’s hackathon—a competition in which teams of students spend 15 hours designing, coding, constructing, testing and debugging ambitious projects.
—Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
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Disney is about to debug California Adventure to make way for Marvel superheroes.
—Scott Craven, azcentral, 21 Mar. 2018
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The final gate fell when Storm-0558 managed to compromise a Microsoft engineer’s corporate account, giving the hackers access to the very debugging environment that never should have had the key to begin with.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2023
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Engineers debugging the issue couldn’t immediately identify the cause, but the community of validators, which help issue transactions on the network, rolled back a recent update to the blockchain’s software to try to solve the problem.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 27 Feb. 2023
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Apple refused to provide debugging tools and would answer questions from engineers with suggestions rather than direct fixes.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
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Among the former are security researchers and hardware developers trying to debug a wireless setup.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2023
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The crash dump was later moved into Microsoft’s debugging environment.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2024
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Elon Musk is reportedly personally involved in testing out and debugging the advanced driver assist system, which uses a host of cameras and sensors to control the vehicle’s speed, braking, and steering.
—Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 6 Nov. 2018
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The fact that Chicago schools were vetting Google products, like the Classroom app, gave administrators a welcome counternarrative of the district’s altruistically helping Google debug its products for schools across the country.
—Natasha Singer, New York Times, 13 May 2017
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Unit tests are useful for debugging individual functions and for detecting errors when code is manually changed.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
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That process is ongoing, as the team works to continuously debug the software, ensuring that the final mRNA product is as biological stable and reliable as possible.
—Alice Park, Time, 2 Feb. 2020
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In this arrangement, the student is immersed in hands-on classroom learning about debugging engines and then applies those skills immediately through fixing engines under the supervision of a mentor at a local dealership.
—Matthew Mayhew, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
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