rigor

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That raises further questions in my mind about the rigor of the legal analysis here.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026

Few activists in the financial world have had comparable impact as the investor and activist David Webb—and fewer still have done so with such independence and analytical rigor.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

This approach offers a much higher level of statistical rigor than most previous studies.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

Godlove, a young chemist the publisher hired in 1931 to help bring scientific rigor to the slippery business of defining colors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

There’s an old joke, told in Simon Singh’s excellent book Fermat’s Last Theorem, that gives a sense of the different degree of rigor of mathematical proof.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith