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[vek-ter] / ˈvɛk tər /


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Distillation, a vector by which powerful AI spreads, has been a focus of U.S. attention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

In Orange County, its vector control district reported its first disease-carrying mosquitoes in Newport Beach on June 2.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

I first came to wear the badge of foodie in college in the aughts, a time when the term meant leading with curiosity, a vector for discovering and exploring new cultures and ideas.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

Hurricanes turned out to be a vector for spreading the little winged bug.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Officials at the who began to fear that Nurse Mayinga would become the vector for a world-wide plague.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Researchers are increasingly examining how diseases transmitted by vectors may have restricted where canine populations could survive and expand.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

Searching for "secret information" that could help it cheat the evaluation, the OpenAI system "chained together multiple attack vectors, including using stolen credentials".

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Platner’s tattoo, then, is a particularly charged showdown between vectors of progressivism headed in opposite directions—the old world and the new.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026

Mr. Shear, a New Yorker, has made a movie that has an intuitive understanding of how the city’s random vectors intersect with each other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

Jake started adding in vectors and angles and working the equations along with Mr. Keeney.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

You can feel the vectored torque tugging at the wheel as it fights off understeer in a tight turn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

“If that is the case it will raise questions about how it is vectored between such geographically separated sites.”

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2023

Pentagon spokesman John Supple said the military has no reports of “aircraft being inappropriately vectored in the region mentioned” in the notice.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

“The results are plausible, and not very different to those seen with other AdV vectored products,” he said.

From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2020

An F-94 in the area was contacted and visually vectored to the light by the tower operators.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

He said that’s a much more advanced method of thrust vectoring than a previous method traditionally used on the North’s solid motor missiles.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

Of the more than 3,500 mosquito species, only a few hundred are capable of vectoring disease.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2019

A brake torque vectoring system similar to the one on the Volkswagen GTI pulses all four wheels to keep Alltrack’s trajectory true.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2016

Thanks to the advent of brake-based torque vectoring, these Renegades can also shift up to 100% of driveline torque side to side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2016

The reporters and photographers were asked to leave the radar room on the pretext that classified radio frequencies and procedures were being used in vectoring the interceptors.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt




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