precision
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With him is Jaime Castaneda, a longtime manager, trusted counterman and one of the secret weapons Langer deploys to ensure the deli’s famous pastrami is hand-cut with speed and precision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Instead of treating every cancer of the same general type in exactly the same way, precision oncology uses the molecular and genetic features of an individual tumor to help guide therapy.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
Plus, it’s inherently funny when a body engineered to function with extreme precision behaves ineptly.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
Their lawyer, Joko Jumadi, says he has been struck by the students' courage and precision.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Events were fitting together now with the precision of pentominoes.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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
Not all men are fitted by nature for the precisions of life in a barracks.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
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