measure
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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
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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
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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
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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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