dimension
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In acreage terms, Germany’s wildfires are small, but they are getting worse—and the conflicts of the last century add an extra dimension of peril.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Jake Moore, global cyber-security advisor at ESET, said at the time the announcement from OpenAI could also have a competitive dimension.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Beyond that, Beijing has ambitions to play a role in the Arctic’s future, lending a geopolitical dimension to the Chinese company’s shipping route.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
“In the snap of fingers, my best friend, my confidant, my partner, my soul mate was transitioned to another dimension — a higher plane,” she wrote in her post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
With each echoed word, Dad’s face fell into another dimension of disappointment.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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Until now, extending this approach into three dimensions required lengthy measurements at major synchrotron research facilities.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Its findings may reveal more about the dimensions of America’s practice of executing the innocent and show that it is anything but a myth.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
None of the eight met the required dimensions and mechanical strength, while some pins snapped off under force during tests.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Given the limitation of personal screens, this only reveals the varying frame dimensions, but it’s pretty fun to flick through them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The dimensions of the Cosmos are so large that using familiar units of distance, such as meters or miles, chosen for their utility on Earth, would make little sense.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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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But this attic story was not all composed of chambers thus dimensioned.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
The details, fully dimensioned, are shown separately in figs.
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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Engineering - Introductory
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