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
There was a policy dimension to this uncertainty, too.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
And a new dimension entered the combat: a father’s awareness of a growing son, the son as challenger, the son as threat, the son as successor, the son as man.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Nvidia’s search for a new chief executive is unique in multiple dimensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
More broadly, the successful test suggests that the size of future space infrastructure may not always have to be dictated by the dimensions of the rockets used to launch its components.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
But, if you aspire to a better brew, there are some specific rules to follow, down to the “precise reference masses and dimensions for teapots and bowls.”
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026
The researchers also investigated more unusual scenarios involving theories in which space has additional dimensions beyond the three we experience in everyday life.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
In three dimensions, you just have a z axis as well.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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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
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An airshaft dimensioned like a coffin was built into the bedrooms.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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The illustration shows how this will look and the size of the parts for the back dimensioned above.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
The factory made elaborate detailed dimensioned drawings, marked with every permitted kind and degree of variation—as many as four hundred drawings to a single aeroplane.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
Vocabulary lists containing dimension
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The ACT Math Test: Number and Quantity
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Engineering - Introductory
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