How to Use algorithm in a Sentence

algorithm

noun
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  • Some of it’s stuff she’s heard from friends, some of it’s from the algorithm.
    — Vulture, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Not for the actions of the users, but for the actions of their algorithms.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Even the less extreme looks feel like they’re plucked from the algorithm.
    — Alana Hope Levinson, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Tech giants tend to put their faith in the almighty algorithms.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 June 2024
  • The fund’s assessment of what makes a good school isn’t just based on some algorithm.
    — Curbed, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Will it be used to train new algorithms to trace the users, or their descendants?
    — Carl Öhman, TIME, 31 July 2024
  • And then the algorithm finds employers that can meet their wants and needs.
    — cleveland, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The singer’s rapid ascent can be attributed in part to the algorithm.
    — Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • The algorithm changes, or at least the perception of them, affected the kind of videos that were posted to the site.
    — Kevin Lozano, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The 17-year-old did not create the algorithm, but did design the app to use it seamlessly.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But then Netflix and the almighty algorithm — and my brother — put it squarely on my radar.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • This isn’t the first time YouTube has faced scrutiny for its algorithm.
    — Victoria Feng, NBC News, 18 June 2024
  • The online tool at the heart of the case is the recommendation algorithm.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Of course, TikTok isn't worth as much without the algorithm.
    — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 16 May 2024
  • The algorithms that power these platforms focus on videos that get a lot of attention in the forms of shares and likes.
    — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The algorithm can be trained to recognize structure for events that stretch out over time, such as an episode of a TV show.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The public should not be subjected to the use of biased algorithms.
    — Alondra Nelson, Foreign Affairs, 12 Jan. 2024
  • That time Elon had his engineers code a special algorithm to boost his tweets to the top of the feed was quite the spectacle.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • What was the database, what attention was made to ensure that the data that was used to build the algorithm was clean?
    — Katie Palmer Reprints, STAT, 12 Jan. 2023
  • On paper, the movie sounds like something an algorithm would kick out.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And of course, the patient's performance and progress are assessed by an algorithm that doesn't change from day to day.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 25 Jan. 2025
  • This software made an algorithm changing the new actor’s voice to sound like Reczek.
    — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • An algorithm, after all, is only as good as the data it’s trained on.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Today’s pop-punk is bound to the algorithm, which decides what songs will be hits more than any suit ever could.
    — Brendan Menapace, SPIN, 12 Aug. 2024
  • In this case, the algorithm—called MABFuzz—is used to decide whether to try a new random input or stick with one that works well.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Jan. 2024
  • ByteDance engineered a new algorithm for Musical.ly, and merged its users with those of TikTok.
    — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The study seems to corroborate claims that Musk manipulates the algorithm of the site to boost his own posts.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Much of this was done with a trading algorithm baked into Alameda’s code, the people said.
    — Zachary M. Seward, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2022
  • But people can’t always hum it accurately enough for the algorithm.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Procurement organizations, squeezed by the government to place more organs, rely on algorithms that can spit out imprecise match results.
    — Brian M. Rosenthal, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025

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