How to Use algorithm in a Sentence

algorithm

noun
  • 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
  • The singer’s rapid ascent can be attributed in part to the algorithm.
    Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • On paper, the movie sounds like something an algorithm would kick out.
    Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • So, then other competitors were able to use that to train their algorithms.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • The company will also be barred from using that data to train its algorithms, the FTC said.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 31 May 2023
  • Then there are the very subtle details in the code or algorithm that consumers would never notice.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The same is true for Oura’s new sleep staging algorithm, which is currently in beta.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Sure, scientists could tell you that the algorithms learn to spot patterns in massive amounts of data.
    Billy Perrigo/san Francisco, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Simone agrees, and much of the series follows her on this quest, submitting to the algorithm in order to destroy it.
    Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 9 May 2023
  • And the companies that are creating the algorithm are not doing it with the kids’ best interest in mind.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The bill prohibits ByteDance from controlling the algorithm.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Kramer’s Hammer of the Witches will seem like a mild sugar high compared with the heroin rush of content the algorithms will concoct.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Applying machine learning algorithms to the data, the app assigns it one of 23 pH levels.
    New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024

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