dimension
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"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
This feels like Firstman trying to give some dimension to Peter, but it’s broad and lacking conviction.
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
That gave the story a kind of human dimension as well.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
They were of her—a dimension of her mind or soul that took form only as they emerged.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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This underlying material has a crystal structure with slightly smaller dimensions than bismuth ferrite, creating a mismatch between their atomic arrangements.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
Nvidia’s search for a new chief executive is unique in multiple dimensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 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
She increased the dimensions of the model, then showed Arachne how it could be created—strands of material woven into strips, then braided into a long cylinder.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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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 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
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.
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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