record

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They have won 18 consecutive home matches in the competition and in doing so have surpassed Clapham Rovers' long-standing record, which was set between December 1873 and February 1881.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

If all proceeds smoothly, as Orion whips around the Moon the astronauts could set a record by venturing farther from Earth than any human before.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

Once in the late 1950s, while building machinery to record sounds a heart makes, he accidentally used the wrong resistor, but its electrical pulse rate was steady, like a heartbeat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

SDSSJ0715-7334 has just 0.005 percent of the metals found in the Sun, making it the most metal-poor star ever observed, more than twice as metal-poor as the previous record holder.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

It’s a about the size of a bread box, and it can record sounds and play them back just like they sounded in the first place.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman