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vector

[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

“These mosquitoes really like living with us,” Douglas Norris, a vector biologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told me.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

Last year, Orange County’s vector control detected West Nile virus in four mosquito pools.

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

"You'd be eyeballing the intercept and using a thrust vector you can barely control."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

A former Jack Smith prosecutor and a veteran corruption reporter map the vectors for lawlessness that many have missed.

From Slate May 23, 2026

Fair enough, but mosquitoes do convey an enormous disease burden, as vectors, to human beings.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

Ifx represents the vector of variables, b and c are vectors of known coefficients, and A is a matrix of coefficients, determine the maximum value of the objective function cTx .

From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman

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

The controllers vectored the jets toward group after group of targets, but each time, before the jets could get close enough to see anything more than just a light, the targets had sped away.

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

But “Death of an Author” is arguably the first halfway readable A.I. novel, an early glimpse at what is vectoring toward readers.

From New York Times May 1, 2023

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

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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