discrete

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Parlays are big money-makers for sportsbooks because they involve tying together multiple discrete bets into one long-shot wager.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

Alison-Madueke said another property overlooking Regent's Park was used for "discrete" official meetings, while she said another property she is accused of using was "completely gutted" for renovations and unusable when she saw it.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

At KPMG, AI agents are prompted by people to conduct a discrete set of tasks with humans evaluating tests and moving them to other agents to complete the work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

As their characters, Conforti, Blanchard and Ardies, deftly carve out discrete personalities beneath their plum-colored homogeneity, each playing a role that is, in turn, playing a role while also remaining desperately human.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

First, genes had to explain the phenomenon of variation: How could discrete units of heredity explain that human eyes, say, do not have six discrete forms but seemingly 6 billion continuous variants?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee