caliber
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For one, the car wasn’t yet championship caliber.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
News has made over the past few years to focus the rankings more on rewarding schools that help students succeed after college and less for the caliber of students they admit on the front end.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
But at times, the caliber of their technical and harmonic choices sounds arty and sophisticated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The more Mitchell conjures joy and fear from thin air with the snap of his fingers, the more frustrating it becomes that audiences seldom get to experience summer fun at this caliber anymore.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Booth chose as his primary weapon a .44 caliber, single-shot, muzzle-loading pistol manufactured by Henry Deringer of Philadelphia.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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The Czechoslovak Group, which acquired a German nitrocellulose facility, aims to secure the entire supply chain for artillery shells of various calibers within company facilities across several European countries by year-end.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The Ukrainians that day could use their 155mm rounds while saving their Soviet calibers.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2023
There are thousands of "elite" teams like that city's Scorpion unit and they come in all calibers, shapes, and sizes.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2023
Indeed, since a grip has nothing to do with a gun’s internal mechanics, there’s no reason to include those calibers except to announce it as a product for AR-15s and M16s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2019
On the remainder of the front the day passed comparatively quietly, though most parts of the line underwent intermittent shelling by guns of various calibers.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 by Various
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