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duration

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


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Next best is transportation equipment, leading by five quarters with a combination of depth and duration proving its worth to economists.

From MarketWatch

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