Used in a Sentence

fagan

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for fagan.

Editorial note

CI/CD and web delivery seem like they would blunt the motivation to go through a Fagan review for most software developed these days.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of fagan gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

noun

An unincorporated community in Menifee County, Kentucky, United States.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fagan.

noun

A surname.

noun

An unincorporated community in Menifee County, Kentucky, United States.

Example sentences

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CI/CD and web delivery seem like they would blunt the motivation to go through a Fagan review for most software developed these days.

2

They broke the Shamaya Fagan story as well as numerous others.

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Or are 3 senior developers doing Fagan inspections?

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I was shocked in the Fagan case when I learned that we don't have anti-corruption laws to charge something as brazen as what she did.

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Linda Fagan told Congress that the service was short 3,500 members, while the service's fiscal 2024 budget request reported a shortfall of 4,800, or nearly 10% of its force.

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We had a lightweight Fagan inspection process (with 4 roles and all that stuff) and some scripts we wrote to ensure each commit was either reviewed or explicitly skipped.

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Cleanroom & Fagan Inspections, which I used, drove the defect rate close to zero while often reducing the labor due to less time debugging & with little impact on time-to-market.

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There are some good 1970s quad recordings such as Fragile by Yes but also a lot of good stuff in the the 2000-2010 period such as Supernature by Goldfrapp and some artists like Donald Fagan who always believed in multichannel.

Quote examples

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The line about rejoining our animal brothers has a faint smell of "the matrix." It always reminds me of Donald's Fagan's I.

2

I highly recommend Fagan's book "Eminent Hipsters."

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I have had “Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations” by Brian Fagan (2009) on my bookshelf for a while but haven’t found the time to sit down and read it.

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I think William Gibson was famous for saying, "Nobody is going to pirate you book or steal your work, hell if they read a chapter while sitting in the library you are ahead of most authors!" Sean Fagan (@kithrup@wandering.shop) on Mastodon, periodically buys and then gives away Kindle books.

Proper noun examples

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Nothing worse than a little latency if you have ears like Donald Fagan.

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Fagan, Fish on Friday - Patrik Svensson, The Gospel of the Eels (also wrote another book on eels) maybe it's one of these two!

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Stanley had turned around ‘in a slow, deliberate, fluid motion’ and pointed his wrapped-up table leg at PC Fagan, adopting a classic firing posture, which prompted Chief Insp.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use fagan in a sentence?

CI/CD and web delivery seem like they would blunt the motivation to go through a Fagan review for most software developed these days.

What does fagan mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is fagan?

fagan is commonly used as noun.