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duration

[doo-rey-shuhn, dyoo-] / dʊˈreɪ ʃən, dyʊ- /


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The average duration of a race is about three minutes.

From BBC

The short duration and intense media coverage of the “Brat” moment make it easy to forget that it was by far the best pop offering of its year.

From The Wall Street Journal

That, in turn, could provide a “green light for deeper rate cuts and rewards investors positioned in duration” or longer-term bonds, wrote Steven Major, global macro advisor at Tradition.

From Barron's

By analyzing these events, they measured "parity coherence exceeding one millisecond," a duration considered highly promising for future operations involving topological qubits based on Majorana modes.

From Science Daily

The injunction itself does not resolve the underlying lawsuit, and is in effect for the duration of the litigation.

From Los Angeles Times