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She worries it would set an impossibly high performance standard for the clone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
Another advantage is that the information stored in these quantum states can be extracted using standard Ramsey measurement techniques, eliminating the need for specialized or exotic measurement methods.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
"This is a really poor pitch. This is not the standard of pitch you'd expect for a Lord's Test, and they've got to do something about it," BBC chief cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew said.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
California would be the first in the country to adopt such a statewide standard or permit.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
This seems to be the earliest usage of the term ‘hypothesis’ in its standard modern sense, at any rate in English.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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