How to Use software in a Sentence

software

noun
Definition of softwarenext
Synonyms for softwarenext
  • The important part is the software, and that’s the hardest part of all of this.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023
  • Some of the vehicles, about 15% in Hyundai’s case, can’t be fixed with software.
    — Tom Krishner, oregonlive, 9 May 2023
  • As soon as the match was made, the software sent an alert to housing staff, who asked the man to leave and alerted the county sheriff.
    — Douglas MacMillan, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • The studios cannot require a writer to use AI software.
    — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • That Easter Egg was rolled out in a software update in August of 2018.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Much of the Pixel camera magic comes from the software and features.
    — Dave Leclair, PCMAG, 12 May 2023
  • As the software giant’s latest results show, that doesn’t always prove to be a good thing.
    — WSJ, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Dealers will update the ESP control unit software, free of charge.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 29 May 2023
  • Your change, 4 coins, is stored at a new address, which your wallet software creates for you.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Slow and glitchy software has put it on the back foot in China, and it hasn’t been embraced by EV fans in the same way as stalwarts like Tesla.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Programmers have the tools to make software leaner and greener.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024
  • What do Wikipedia, Creative Commons and open-source software have in common?
    — Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The fault was ultimately traced to a software glitch in the lander’s braking system.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 July 2023
  • The fix will add additional controls to help ensure that drivers are alert and aware while the software is in use.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2023
  • End users were the weakest link in this chain, and many companies paid the price, leading to firewall upgrades, new counter-threat software and more.
    — Rohan Joshi, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Attorneys and judges have told The News that the software system has left them blind on the progress of cases, bond settings and whether inmates have been released.
    — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The firm is looking to invest in software, life sciences and hard tech, according to their website.
    — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 11 May 2023
  • Keith didn’t give specifics but did suggest that software updates could bring more features to the Scribe’s Notebook app.
    — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The first is how to leverage the cloud and run applications and software more efficiently.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 14 July 2023
  • The regular Watch 6 is tipped to be like the Watch 5 and offer software support for bezel interactions.
    — Prakhar Khanna, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • That shift has been abetted by workplace software such as Slack, with its chatty norms and many emoji options.
    — Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Police provided an image of the vehicle that was captured by plate-reading software at the scene of the shooting.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The computer vision software is trained through a database of about 7 million images.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The lawsuit is one of a growing number of legal battles against AI companies that scrape the internet to train their software.
    — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Refuse to pick a location, however, and the installer won't know what software to install.
    — WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Board member Michael Mellon, R-Munster, made the motion to end the contract and stop the annual software maintenance fees.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • According to a failure analysis report submitted to the ISRO, the crash was caused by a software glitch.
    — Aijaz Rahi and Ashok Sharma, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
  • While some systems have software to allow for the addition of a second, few allow for a second to be erased, according to the paper.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • For the first time, such change heralds an era in which software engineers themselves may be less well compensated and less in demand.
    — Yiren Lu, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • These include cameras on train cars, scanning software to determine who dodge the subway fare, and robot dogs.
    — Oscar Gonzalez / Gizmodo, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024

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