optic

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After a week getting steroids and pain medicine at Providence St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, he received the biopsy results: an extremely aggressive malignant mass was blocking blood flow to Duong’s optic nerve.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

This theory underpins much of today's technology, including computer chips, lasers, fiber optic communication, solar panels, MRI scanners, electron microscopes, and the atomic clocks used in GPS systems.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

The vast Arctic island is connected to the world by two subsea fibre optic cables to Canada and Iceland, in addition to satellite coverage in the north and east.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

Fiber optic cables were lighter than copper, more of the value in GDP was in ideas not physical goods, et cetera.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

He’d even painted the room, from its sky blue to a barren, optic white.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee