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: robot
The competition pits remote-controlled, spinning, stabbing robots against each other in three-minute jousts to the death. At the end of each fight, either one of the bots is a smoking, immobile wreck or the judges decide who scored the most blows.—
Brad Stone
Brad Stone
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: a computer program that performs automatic repetitive tasks : agent sense 5
Several shopping "bots" will track down prices for on-line merchandise from a variety of vendors.—Sam Vincent Meddis
Sam Vincent Meddis
especially : one designed to perform a malicious action
These bot programs churn away all day and night, prodding at millions of random IP addresses looking for holes to crawl through. —Jennifer Tanaka
Jennifer Tanaka
b
: a computer that has been infected with a bot and can be used for malicious purposes as part of a network of infected computers
These proxies then sent instructions to worker bots in set patterns, including templates for spam creation.—Jeff Hecht
Jeff Hecht
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: a computer program or character (as in a game) designed to mimic the actions of a person
variants or less commonly bott
: the larva of a botfly
especially : one infesting the horse
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botanical; botanist; botany
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bottle
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bottom
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bought
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Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026 While Nguyen is spending time with his family or out running his business, in the background there’s a kind of endless conversation with a bot that’s sending into motion many chatbots from several different providers all working in unison. —Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Apr. 2026 Tilbury Douglas has tested the bot across various project stages but plans to deploy it even earlier, starting with foundations and groundworks. —Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026 At an annual conference in Las Vegas, Google’s cloud computing unit on Wednesday showcased a set of tools that can create AI agents and track their work within companies, including a dedicated inbox for the virtual bots to post information and progress reports. —Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bot
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Noun
Think of it as an evolution of CAPTCHA, the security program used to identify bots and prevent attacks on websites. —Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026 While Nguyen is spending time with his family or out running his business, in the background there’s a kind of endless conversation with a bot that’s sending into motion many chatbots from several different providers all working in unison. —Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Apr. 2026 Tilbury Douglas has tested the bot across various project stages but plans to deploy it even earlier, starting with foundations and groundworks. —Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026 At an annual conference in Las Vegas, Google’s cloud computing unit on Wednesday showcased a set of tools that can create AI agents and track their work within companies, including a dedicated inbox for the virtual bots to post information and progress reports. —Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bot
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“Bot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/bot. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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bot
2 of 2 abbreviation
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botanical; botanist; botany
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bottle
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