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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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I love everything about this movie, from its precision plotting to its autumnal poise—a gentle appreciation for what’s gone, along with acceptance that colder days are coming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Ahead of the factory's opening, staff spent time at a Rheinmetall facility in Germany where they were trained in precision manufacturing, quality assurance and specialist weapon production.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

“Investors are increasingly recognizing the enormous commercial potential of this convergence between AI and precision medicine,” Meng wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Shifting between precision and improvisation, each rhythmic mark registers its own time signature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

They move with precision and silence, grabbing every belonging and disappearing up the ladder without disturbing the chickens.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

And yet an EUV alone is a nearly miraculous human achievement, capable of working at scales and precisions that are difficult to fathom.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

“We can create these models that basically let us know the time of arrival to precisions that rival atomic clocks,” says Thankful Cromartie, an astrophysicist at Cornell University and a member of NANOGrav.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2023

It’s in these precisions that the historical and sociological force of her work registers.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023

They will have to decide which qubits in the computer to use and how to deal with ranges of operational fidelities and low-level precisions that are foreign to most modern programmers.

From Nature ● Sep. 12, 2017

Not all men are fitted by nature for the precisions of life in a barracks.

From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense


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