microsecond
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They are quick when they want to be, moving fast or leaping with incredible accuracy, or coming to a sudden stop and changing direction in a microsecond.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Then, he recalled, "they would play the points" in endless takes -- with or without the ball -- repeating choreography timed "down to the microsecond".
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
They’re executing millions of trades on microsecond timescales using signals derived from petabytes of data.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025
They then published in 2020 a paper in Nature showing how bolometers made of graphene can shorten readout times to well below a microsecond.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
He hadn’t been missed, he said, because the Tralfamadorians had taken him through a time warp, so that he could be on Tralfamadore for years, and still be away from Earth for only a microsecond.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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