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fit

[fit] / fɪt /








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Those techniques could eventually reveal effects that do not fit within physicists' current understanding of the universe and potentially offer clues about physics beyond existing theories.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

How does it fit with the rest of my portfolio?

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

She was deemed fit enough to enter her pleas.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

He’s fit right in, making a now Shohei Ohtani-less projected postseason rotation still the most daunting the sport has seen in decades.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

He was still small enough to fit, curled into a little ball, in Bat’s two hands.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

The people included in the study may have been healthier and fitter than the general population.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

But he insists he feels fitter than ever and he dreams of "living to 120."

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

Born in Prescot, Sir George was educated at Huyton Secondary School before working as a fitter, engineer and further education lecturer.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

"She has done a great job of getting more consistent, she is fitter than I've ever seen her and she is so committed to being controlled out there."

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

"And hast been in the battle, clean contrary to your obedience. A boy to break a father's heart! At your age a rod to your breech were fitter than a sword in your fist, ha!"

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

The movie projects contempt for the dense from its first frame, sharing a montage of recent pop culture as a stentorian narrator worries that modern conveniences have perverted the concept of survival of the fittest.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

Those who have played there before explain that the opening 20 minutes are the most crucial period, even for some of the fittest athletes in sports.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Riglar added: "She was one of the fittest players on the team anyway."

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

"The process is just a little bit survival of the fittest," Highton says.

From BBC May 22, 2026

Even the fittest of us were flagging now, and soon the hollows would catch up to us and we’d have to face them in the middle of the street.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

One camera was fitted with a cover called a “Flock sock.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

To investigate, the researchers fitted five mature saltwater crocodiles with satellite tracking devices.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

By the late 1970s, one in two Greenlandic women of childbearing age -- at least 4,070 women -- had been fitted with an IUD, according to an investigation presented in September 2025.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

On 18 January, she underwent emergency surgery, in which part of her bowel was removed and a stoma fitted.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Galileo never really fitted in at the University of Pisa and soon started looking for another post.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

But fitting all the evidence into one explanation remains difficult.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

The 800m was finally reintroduced to the Olympic programme in 1960 and, four years later, the then-22-year-old Brightwell went to her first Olympics, fitting training around her job as a teacher.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

It’s fitting that this book, which presents the afterlife as a play of voices, has been adapted as an opera.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

San Francisco is still bolting new pieces together, including fitting Mike Evans into the offense on the fly.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Next up, a song called “Road to Nowhere,” which is quite fitting, given what surrounds her—miles and miles of ranch fencing, and then brown and green and yellow hills marked with green scrub.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti




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