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[mezh-er] / ˈmɛʒ ər /








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OpenAI has recently endorsed several AI safety bills, including one in Massachusetts on Tuesday, though the legislation doesn’t impose as many requirements as a similar measure Anthropic is backing in the state.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

The new price measure will give more weight to gaming and information technology for businesses, two categories that have grown in importance.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

“The reform measure was extraordinarily popular, it was going to pass, so instead of going at it directly, he ran a competing measure.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Doesn’t exactly measure up to the enormity of the classics, does it?

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

Fill each measure with a different combination of note lengths.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

It measures just 4.1 millimetres in thickness and weighs 215 grammes.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

The Bureau of Economic Analysis, author of the report, plans to change how it measures prices in three categories that influence the core PCE rate:

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Precisely because food and energy prices can be very volatile, the Bank of England also considers other economic measures such as "core inflation", which excludes these costs.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

The Palynomorph Darkness Index measures color using the RGB spectrum.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

Measure or bar — Beats are grouped into measures or bars.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Be it measured by box office gross or word of mouth buzz, popularity isn’t enough to define a classic.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

The upshot is that stocks’ future cash flows can’t be measured in isolation—they’re compared with what you could earn risk-free from the government.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

After a measured start, the 35-year-old moved through the gears, before showing the first signs of cramp as he neared his half-century, which came up with his fifth four in 71 balls.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

Greenebaum said for this reporting period, the added 43 basis points measured in the month before JPMorgan posted results was about half the average recorded in the past 36 years.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

The procession rolled slowly, the beat of the march measured by drums wrapped in crepe.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

In any case, the new approach to measuring the cost of legal services could actually add slightly to inflation, analysts say.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

By measuring the chemistry of rivers draining the mines, they quantified the extent of acid mine drainage and how much of the water was neutralized through mineral reactions that produce carbon dioxide.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

Many earlier studies depended on biochemical techniques that required scientists to break cells open before measuring protein contacts.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

But both history and myth have proven that there’s no measuring up to the Gods.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Accurately measuring parallax was far from easy, particularly as it required a more exact measure of time than any sixteenth-century clock could provide, but showing that there was no measurable parallax was much more straightforward.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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