How to Use iterate in a Sentence

iterate

verb
  • So the two emailed and Skyped back and forth, iterating on details like the length of the device and the size of the head.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 11 July 2019
  • And so the process of doing that and iterating on that.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 12 July 2018
  • The hope is that the new tools for the game engine will allow the team to iterate and improve for faster updates.
    Teddy Amenabar, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
  • Use these as your starting point; then iterate on them all spring.
    The Cut, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Continue to iterate and see what people use it for the most.
    Putri Karunia, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • This has been a great safe place to talk about Bella and keep learning and iterating.
    Lily Shaw, Twin Cities, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Start small, with one initiative and build out from there and iterate.
    Sheldon Miller, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • The company didn't stick to a plan or iterate on its products, though.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 May 2022
  • Learn to fail and iterate quickly and find good partners who respect you for you.
    Colleen Leahey McKeegan, Marie Claire, 3 Apr. 2018
  • On the software side of things, Google hasn't been iterating on Wear OS quickly enough.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 24 May 2018
  • As assumptions are tested in the wild, the group will refine and iterate with the goal of disruption.
    Erik Oberholtzer, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Grant, Irtefa and the Jam team have diverse backgrounds to iterate and ship new features fast.
    Frederick Daso, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • If the critique at first blush seems lacking in punch, continue to iterate and converse with the AI app.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • There were pops of fuchsia and a vibrant green color iterated in a swirl print.
    Sara Radin, Teen Vogue, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The product may not be ready, but the concept keeps iterating itself.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Keep it simple, then iterate and expand with progress and learning.
    Jim Barrett, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Then iterate the function for successive versions of z to create the orbit of the function.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The test campaign is designed to push the limits and gather a lot of data quickly so the company can iterate and try again.
    Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
  • These homebrew scripts can loop, iterate, and spin off new instances of an AI model as needed.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Hammel has been iterating on it for over a decade, and has never repeated a recipe.
    Antonio Basada, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2018
  • But the key isn't that Amazon has the best ideas or is the first to have those ideas — it’s that Bezos and Amazon iterate, refine and repeat until the ideas are perfected.
    Akshay Bhargava, Forbes, 24 May 2021
  • Yet today, Leone iterates that Carver and the ranchers need more support.
    Esha Chhabra, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The team was iterating on a system called Switchyard that Morgan Quigley had built at Stanford.
    IEEE Spectrum, 24 Mar. 2022
  • And then customers helped the company evolve and iterate to meet customer demand.
    Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Like a coin toss that keeps coming up heads, iterated titles suggest an occult lucky streak bound to break.
    Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
  • What’s more, features can be iterated via over-the-air software updates.
    Kyle Stock, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Amazon kicked off the smart speaker category in 2014 with the release of its first Echo smart speaker and has been iterating on the product since.
    Kaya Yurieff, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Russia is also short on the funding needed to furiously iterate in the way that both the U.S. and Soviet Union did during the space race.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
  • And in that same timeframe, the institute has continued to iterate new features and design ideas.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Builders listen to customers, envision and iterate on what a better experience could be, then find the tools to build it.
    Bridget Perry, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021

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