dimension
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The fact that her final opponent was Sabalenka, the player she will replace at the top of the rankings, added an extra dimension to Saturday's championship match.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
As Béatrice moves further into a long-buried conspiracy, “Chronovisor” tests its audience’s nerve to see if they have what it takes to transport themselves into another dimension, another consciousness.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
People vandalized and stole Ponce’s whiteboards, adding a dimension of drama to the tracker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The creative process is usually unfilmable, but when the work is artisanal—metalworking, boot-making, blacksmithing, ceramics—there’s a tactile dimension that can make for uniquely satisfying viewing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Imagine a universe just like Flatland, except that unbeknownst to the inhabitants, their two-dimensional universe is curved through a third physical dimension.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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He saw that three-dimensional experience was going to be rendered in two dimensions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
A few weeks ago, I met an acquaintance for coffee at a Cuban café attached to a downtown hostel, where people with backpacks of varying dimensions passed steadily through the lobby.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Such extra dimensions have been proposed as one possible answer to the hierarchy problem, a longstanding question in physics that asks why gravity is dramatically weaker than the other fundamental forces.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
But in all probability, we’ve been in this technological stage for nearly a year, even though it was hard to notice given the relentless debate over the financial, economic and social dimensions of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
It takes some getting accustomed to the fact that the minuscule times and distances of microphysics as well as the vastness of astronomical phenomena share the dimensions of our human world.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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This has drastic consequences for the way in which flood protection must be dimensioned.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2023
U. S. Ambassador Woods called for tinned meat, condensed milk, flour, underclothing, galvanized iron, dimensioned timber to provide food and shelter for the refugees.
From Time Magazine Archive
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An airshaft dimensioned like a coffin was built into the bedrooms.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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But this attic story was not all composed of chambers thus dimensioned.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
Drawing a key from his pocket he took them into the small office, and showed them the spaciously dimensioned interior.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Engineering - Introductory
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