Claude

American

[klawd, klohd] / klɔd, kloʊd /

noun

Albert, 1899–1983, U.S. biologist, born in Belgium: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974.
Also Claud. a male given name: from a Roman family name meaning “lame.”

Claude British

/ klɔːd, klod /

noun

Albert. 1898–1983, US cell biologist, born in Belgium: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1974) for work on microsomes and mitochondria

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A particular challenge is Claude Code, a magic box that takes your words in plain English and converts them into real software before your eyes.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2026

Meanwhile, the company only has access to so much computing power to actually do the work users ask of Claude.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2026

As of April 8, Anthropic’s Claude API had a 98.95% uptime rate in the last 90 days.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Yes, some of these are companies that have dealt with intense scrutiny from Wall Street regarding their ability to compete with Anthropic’s Claude tool and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

In that picture Claude Barron enlists in the Foreign Legion because Rita Carrol marries another guy.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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