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design

[dih-zahyn] / dɪˈzaɪn /








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That’s by design: The band only captures blood pressure when I’m relaxed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Including those effects early in the design process could prevent expensive problems later.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

The findings could influence the design of two major types of magnetic fusion devices: tokamaks and stellarators.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

The trio was given carte blanche to design their individual spaces, which include a bathroom, walk-in closet and fireplace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Liz teaches me some basics of social media and website design, and by lunchtime, we’ve built a digital empire for my girl.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

This balance could be valuable for future reactor designs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

In this role, she commissions photojournalists nationwide and designs illustrations for complex financial stories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Taiwan is home to hardware production giants TSMC, which turns Nvidia's cutting-edge designs into silicon components, and Foxconn, which assembles the processors to make data centre servers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The Clearwater, Fla.-based supplier claimed that Joby used its proprietary designs and data to develop its own probes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Soon their insights allowed them to build their own working copy of a Japanese Type B machine—even though they had never seen one, or even any designs for one.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

If scientists can determine how that mechanism works and whether it can be strengthened, it could provide a new target for therapies designed to protect vision.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The renewal is the latest in a series of contract extensions at Chelsea designed to reward established and emerging players while maintaining the club's wage structure.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Unlike the hundreds of leveraged and inverse ETFs that came before it, the new Roundhill ETF is designed as a long-term leveraged play on the direction of the S&P 500.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

The legislation was designed to establish the first comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets, eventually helping to widen acceptance of crypto assets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

New buildings in Japan are designed to rock and flex rather than break, helping them weather strong quakes.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

If future studies confirm the calculations, the findings could provide an important foundation for designing more efficient fusion systems and help researchers make better decisions about reactor construction.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

For much of the past year, Meta has been embroiled in a series of legal actions, accused of deliberately designing products that are addictive to young users.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

A much-cited U.S. analysis imagined a suburban county designing its waste system from scratch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Last year, the jury honoured Japan's Susumu Kitagawa, UK-born Richard Robson and American-Jordanian Omar Yaghi for developing a method of designing molecular structures.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Then he got out a pencil and paper and set about designing a new house—a house he would again build with his own hands, and in which he would finally reunite Joe with his family.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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