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accuracy

[ak-yer-uh-see] / ˈæk jər ə si /


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The accuracy of some events may be disputed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The day Israel voted in its consequential election this week, Kalshi Chief Executive Tarek Mansour was in Midtown Manhattan defending the accuracy of his platform.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

When networks contain enormous numbers of connections, the ability to balance accuracy and speed becomes especially valuable.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

But the accuracy of the count is not among them.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

When you have hiked the AT as much as we had, you get so you can judge a mile with considerable accuracy.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

It also measured concentrations in water-based and organic solutions with accuracies of approximately 0.01%, exceeding the performance of commercial benchtop spectrometers in those experiments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Still, though, the ALA's reliance on media accounts and reports from librarians remains a confounding variable in the numerical accuracies, as the body has previously noted.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2024

“That report was not completely accurate but there’s some accuracies in it,” said Jayna Hefford, a four-time Olympic gold medalist for Canada who is the PWHPA’s lead operations consultant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

Let the D.C. curriculum reflect the historical accuracies, including the murder — the Holocaust — of millions, particularly Jews, during World War II.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2023

There are no tragic contrasts of splendour sharply defined on blackness, no mysteries of half-felt and pervasive twilight, no studied accuracies of noonday clearness in his work.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown


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