precise
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“The precise mechanisms of holding one’s breath, letting air out, and submerging the body underwater are not visible in the archive,” Ms. Fernando notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
He is renowned for his precise and restrained use of language, delivering provocative truths about people’s ugliest impulses and asking the audience to laugh at them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Their product: an algorithm that, by sweeping up all the data available about any individual, will offer precise guidance about how to move forward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
If we were to make a precise measurement of whether the photon is dwelling in the atoms, at each instant of time, we would prevent the atoms from interacting with the photon.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
He’d had a very precise, clear-cut plan; now, as usual, Koffi was dismantling it.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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