dimension
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The nuclear dimension meant that the development of antiballistic-missile defense had been viewed as a destabilizing factor in the nuclear equilibrium between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and was limited by international treaties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
"I spent 42 days in jail. My arrest gave a new dimension to our struggle in Turkey, but also around the world," she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
“We feel that’s just the right thing to do when you’re in Southern California. It brought another dimension to the hotel.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
This finding adds another dimension to the emerging picture of prehistoric European societies.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
“Ew, no. The fourth dimension is time. This thing has been here for two weeks!”
From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead
Nvidia’s search for a new chief executive is unique in multiple dimensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Confocal microscopy uses light to capture detailed images at different depths within a sample, allowing researchers to reconstruct its structure in three dimensions.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
There are also standards for things like the physical dimensions of ID cards.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026
Yet the movie’s unlikely combination of qualities—its huge dimensions in service of a modest tale—has never been seen to better advantage than in Warner Archive’s surpassingly beautiful new 4K and Blu-ray release.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Thinking in multiple dimensions will not only be an asset, but indispensable.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
This has drastic consequences for the way in which flood protection must be dimensioned.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2023
U. S. Ambassador Woods called for tinned meat, condensed milk, flour, underclothing, galvanized iron, dimensioned timber to provide food and shelter for the refugees.
From Time Magazine Archive
An airshaft dimensioned like a coffin was built into the bedrooms.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
But this attic story was not all composed of chambers thus dimensioned.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
If the drawing is not dimensioned, the workman must get his sizes from the drawing by applying his rule or a suitable scale.
From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by David Allan Low
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