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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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Iran was also hitting smaller buildings, one sign of the precision that has increasingly alarmed U.S. officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Researchers say larger, more representative studies and longer follow-up periods will be needed to confirm the findings and improve the precision of individual risk predictions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The U.S. and its allies have been seeking to rapidly scale up production of precision munitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

This process makes it possible to fabricate extremely small structures with high precision.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

All working with a precision saying they’ve done this thousands and thousands of times.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

The first includes a greatest vocabulary proper names by alphabetical order; and the second forty three Dialogues adapted to the usual precisions of the life.

From English as she is spoke or, A jest in sober earnest by José da Fonseca


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