How to Use debug in a Sentence

debug

verb
  • She's been hired to write and debug computer programs.
  • The program couldn’t be debugged, and Amazon dropped the project.
    — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 26 May 2023
  • The Bread Code When things go wrong, debugging can be tricky.
    — Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Next, make sure your browser isn’t set to debug scripts.
    — Patrick Marshall, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Since its April 15 debut, the IRS has been debugging and adding features to the program.
    — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 26 Apr. 2020
  • From rewriting Nick Cave songs to debugging code, AI has a lot to offer.
    — Sebastien Bardoz, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • But at that point, will humans still be able to understand or debug them?
    — Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Before heading out on a multiday road trip, try some midrange jaunts to help debug your process and systems.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2021
  • One more thing: The system debugged itself after Bernard’s trip into the Cradle.
    — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2018
  • The architecture needs to be performant, easy to manage and easy to debug.
    — Jaspreet Singh, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
  • JavaScript is also more complex and difficult to debug.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2017
  • The debugging procedures proved effective enough that the department was able to launch the form ten days ahead of its December 1 target date.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • And this data must not be retained, including via logging or for debugging, after the response is returned to the user.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • One of the standout features of Visual Studio is its powerful debugging tools.
    — New Atlas, 14 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • After a final, near-sleepless night of debugging and panicked last-minute fixes, Shellphish submitted its program at the 9 a.m. deadline.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • While new bugs and a lack of debugging tools are serious problems, the challenge of probabilistic outputs is one of the biggest issues facing QA professionals.
    — Margarita Simonova, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Microsoft had been clear with Morningstar that the company’s data would only be captured for debugging purposes and purged after 30 days.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 2 May 2024
  • Requests to complete some form of pre-employment test have also been used, along with debugging exercises that execute non-standard scripts.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Company engineers use this mode to debug microcode before chips are publicly released.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • In the complex world of AI applications, the ability to gain real-time insights, track key metrics and streamline debugging processes is invaluable.
    — Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • This feature allows for real-time collaboration, letting coders debug and edit code simultaneously.
    — Stackcommerce Team (sponsored), PCMAG, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The automation of coding, debugging, and testing reduces project costs significantly, allowing small businesses to allocate their budgets more efficiently.
    — Jaime Catmull, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025

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