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China’s renewed tightening of export controls is “a quantum leap in severity and coverage of such controls,” the economist says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

It’s a luxury, a quantum leap, one that can save your imagination from a propensity to meek fatalism or received social patterns.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025

In elite distance running, that’s not a marginal gain, it’s a quantum leap.

From Slate • Jun. 28, 2025

The new method therefore promises a quantum leap in knowledge with regard to the natural virus reservoir.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2024

What I saw made me think I had just made a quantum leap into another galaxy.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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