dimension
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“We are the result of many cultures, stories, peoples and languages, and this gives rise to a creativity all our own. But there is a dimension to our culture that goes beyond aesthetics: our openness.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
In the March speech announcing the new policy, Macron reiterated that these vital interests don’t stop at France’s borders and have a European dimension.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
"This isn't the first time we've had a situation like this but it feels like it's been on another dimension," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
That gave the story a kind of human dimension as well.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
Around them, the sounds of the feast continued, but muted and distant, as if their little cluster of couches had slipped into a quieter dimension.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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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
At the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, researchers led by Prof. Oren Tal and Dr. Anil Kumar Singh positioned individual molecules between two gold tips sharpened to atomic dimensions.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
The second season of "MobLand" sees Conrad take on new dimensions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
“This technology, in some dimensions, can do things that no human mind will be able to do,” Sullivan told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
Had gravity been a trifle stronger, the universe itself might have collapsed like a badly erected tent without precisely the right values to give it the right dimensions and density and component parts.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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.
To test his knowledge, rough dimensioned sketches, more or less incomplete, of simple machine details will be given him, and he will be required to produce a complete drawing in pencil to a given scale.
From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by David Allan Low
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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