optic
Example Sentences
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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
The company develops co-packaged optics, replacing copper interconnections with fiber-optic ones to speed data transfer.
However, those factors also might make the idea of interest-rate cuts more challenging over the immediate term, because “the optics might not be good.”
From MarketWatch
Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers.
Fiber optic cables were lighter than copper, more of the value in GDP was in ideas not physical goods, et cetera.
From Barron's
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