duration
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Its appearance provided additional confirmation of the record intensity calculated from the pulse energy, duration, and size of the focused beam.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
“A durable decline in energy prices could ease inflation pressures, restore some flexibility to Fed policy and provide a powerful tailwind for Asian duration markets,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The heat that Southern California experienced this year was unprecedented, both in intensity and duration, according to Benmarhnia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Future work should examine whether the usage patterns persist over the total duration of the six-year pilot program, the study said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
But to Bush, they suggested that uranium research could be safely laid aside for the duration of the war.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Palantir’s management said difficult quarter-on-quarter comparisons —owing to an exceptionally robust period ended June — and shorter contract durations as headwinds to bookings growth.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Compared with the birds in Madmaheshwar valley, the monal in Chopta also produced shorter call durations likely to cut through low-frequency human noise from traffic and tourist footfall.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
It’s possible that longer durations of air purification may sustain or even increase the improvement in cognitive function we observed in our study.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
"Intolerable heat will be experienced at much larger scales and for longer durations, affecting far more people than previously estimated," the study concluded.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
“But think of the enormous, immeasurable durations it can give you out of time. Every soma-holiday is a bit of what our ancestors used to call eternity'.” John began to understand.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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