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event

[ih-vent] / ɪˈvɛnt /


NOUN
performance, competition
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Take his 1,000m final - usually this event would have six racers, but in Milan had nine because three athletes were advanced to the medal race after being illegally hindered in their semi-finals.

From BBC

These events typically feature rainbow-coloured branding, special warm-up tops and community partnerships.

From BBC

The row began in November, when Takaichi appeared to suggest that Japan would activate its self-defence force in the event of an attack on Taiwan.

From BBC

SINGAPORE—This year’s Lunar New Year holiday is turning into China’s version of the Super Bowl: an annual event taken over by artificial-intelligence companies’ marketing.

From The Wall Street Journal

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