How to Use iterative in a Sentence

iterative

adjective
  • Lots of small, iterative changes but the two games should feel a lot alike.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Many of the upgrades this year (like most years of late) are iterative.
    WIRED, 26 July 2023
  • Other changes over the years have felt iterative at best.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the big changes and reasons to update to a new device are in iterative updates...
    Ewan Spence, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The researchers used an iterative process to refine the robot's skills.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2024
  • And then there’s the iterative rewards of performing the same lines night after night.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2019
  • This is going to be more iterative than I was used to, right? I was used to sort of a full-on assault methodology.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 8 Nov. 2018
  • Even with the internet, not fast enough, not iterative enough.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • There’s room for an iterative approach, but the timeline shouldn’t be open-ended.
    Lou Senko, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • But in the world of social media, as in the world of live television, everything is iterative.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The iterative process of learning from mistakes to improve Hades and Hades II is essentially a rogue game in and of itself.
    Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • This year's update is more iterative, with the company bringing some of those things to new regions.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Open source is also about iterative work: Don't deep dive for months trying to come up with the perfect solution.
    Sacha Labourey, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • Szczecinski says this should involve an iterative process—make a change and use the results over time to calculate a new value for a win and so on.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The emphasis on the guts of the iPhone marked a change from recent years where many new features involved cameras and other iterative updates.
    Tim Higgins, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Otherwise, the updates to one of the world’s most popular health trackers feel iterative this year.
    Gear Team, Wired, 14 Sep. 2021
  • SpaceX uses an iterative design process to reach a flight-ready version of Starship.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Note these standards can be iterative and supportive of innovation, rather than the approval process used for drugs which is more of a pass-fail process.
    Thomas R. Insel, STAT, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Does being a public persona whose image gets used in this iterative way feel like being in the Matrix?
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2021
  • What argument about the public option and the iterative stuff.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 14 June 2018
  • Virtual machines have gotten so good in the course of an iterative march of improvements over many years.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Many of the changes are iterative improvements on the Tab Groups feature introduced in Safari 15.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2022
  • This kind of iterative workflow is very much part of the Montreal studio’s mission.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The outdoor industry has been much more iterative since about 2005.
    Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 4 Feb. 2022
  • An iterative process is necessary to learn to analyze the data and predict the disease’s spread.
    Siqian Shen, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2020
  • In Boyd’s system, the process is iterative, creating a feedback loop.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2013
  • What sets the video-game industry apart from other programming jobs, Chakraverty says, is the highly iterative nature of the work.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2023
  • This iterative process has been in place behind the scenes at Facebook for almost its entire 14-year history.
    Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Of course, video games are a distinctly iterative medium.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The 10th Apple Watch arrives after almost a decade of iterative updates for the company’s smartwatch.
    Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2024

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