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accuracy

[ak-yer-uh-see] / ˈæk jΙ™r Ι™ si /


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But with their capabilities supplemented by human teleoperators, Tau’s robots climbed with deliberate accuracy, albeit a little slowly.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

With every language-services company using its own accuracy measures, everyone essentially grades their own homework, using their own rules.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

She won all her tackles, had a 90% passing accuracy rate, took four shots, scored once and had another disallowed.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

McDonald’s says its early tests have topped 90% accuracy, with plans to expand the technology as part of a sweeping modernization initiative.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

We had of late been so accustomed to watch for sunrise and sunset, that we knew with fair accuracy when it would be; and we knew that before long the sun would set.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Still, though, the ALA's reliance on media accounts and reports from librarians remains a confounding variable in the numerical accuracies, as the body has previously noted.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2024

"The chip can perform high-speed analog computation with ultrabroad processing bandwidths of 67 GHz and excellent computation accuracies," said Feng Hanke, PhD student of EE and the first author of the paper.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2024

“That report was not completely accurate but there’s some accuracies in it,” said Jayna Hefford, a four-time Olympic gold medalist for Canada who is the PWHPA’s lead operations consultant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

Let the D.C. curriculum reflect the historical accuracies, including the murder — the Holocaust — of millions, particularly Jews, during World War II.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2023

The Comtist replies that the task is philosophic; and is not to be judged by the minute accuracies of science.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various


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