precision
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On Monday, it took its final journey from Alabama to the coast of Destin, Florida, where it will be sunk on Wednesday in a precision operation without explosives.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
The teams are scrutinized for precision, technique, innovation, hygiene and, in a recent sustainability push, ingredient waste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
First published in 1980 and updated in 2019, it brings the same bureaucratic precision to preparing tea.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026
Now, researchers have experimentally demonstrated another fundamental limitation: an electron's location and its behavior over time cannot both be determined with arbitrary precision.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
I could not understand how muntu could refer to a living person or a dead one with equal precision, but Nelson just shrugged.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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And yet an EUV alone is a nearly miraculous human achievement, capable of working at scales and precisions that are difficult to fathom.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
“We can create these models that basically let us know the time of arrival to precisions that rival atomic clocks,” says Thankful Cromartie, an astrophysicist at Cornell University and a member of NANOGrav.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2023
It’s in these precisions that the historical and sociological force of her work registers.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023
They will have to decide which qubits in the computer to use and how to deal with ranges of operational fidelities and low-level precisions that are foreign to most modern programmers.
From Nature ● Sep. 12, 2017
Culture they do not need: their dainty hieratic precisions of ritual are a sufficient culture in themselves.
From Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang
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