efficiency
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A study published in 2025 in the Journal of Economic Entomology showed that bistrifluron, an insect growth regulator that interferes with the formation of a new exoskeleton, can kill western drywood termites with remarkable efficiency.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
A significant widening in profit margin—due to improved efficiency and the strengthening zloty against the dollar—also helped headline profit figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Teams in the Premier League counter-attack with greater efficiency so being solid behind your own attacking play is absolutely vital.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
It uses components to transmit data and places them close to the chips to increase efficiency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Yet it was not until the middle of the eighteenth century that Smeaton and Watt both used models to work out how to transform the efficiency of powered machinery.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
AI adoption, and the efficiencies and productivity gains it promises, may provide the U.S. with a plausible path to absorbing higher interest-rate costs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
There have been mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, overlaps, layoffs, and quote-unquote efficiencies all along the way.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
Chamberlain also expects more cost efficiencies from ramping up Claude’s use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The technique produced DNA assembly efficiencies two to five times higher than those achieved with conventional restriction enzyme methods.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Having absorbed Lawrence’s confidence that further efficiencies eventually would be achieved, Groves reduced the specification for Y-12 to five hundred tanks, or five racetracks.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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