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fiber

[fahy-ber] / ˈfaɪ bər /




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Those subsidized tree farms are maturing now, unfortunately at a time when demand for wood fiber has been significantly reduced by global competition, increased use of recycled materials and other factors.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Meanwhile, the food industry has tried to keep up with consumers’ interests in things like protein and fiber, as wellness trends and increased GLP-1 use reshape diets.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

"A lot of the fiber is taken off" in the industrial process, said Danielle Nierenberg, president of the not-for-profit Food Tank which seeks to build sustainable and equitable food systems.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Scientists have also developed specialized optical fibers for technologies including fiber lasers, fiber endoscopes, and fiber sensors.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

But the way fiber cable works is that each cable has multiple strands of fiber in it with a potential capacity to transmit many terabits of data per second on each strand.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

Crews have already covered the fragile area with 4,500 linear feet of wattles, long tubes whose natural fibers hold soil in place, the National Park Service said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

When they removed AHR from neurons or used drugs to block its activity, damaged axonal fibers regenerated more successfully.

From Science Daily Aug. 29, 2026

Under these conditions, the interaction between light and sound becomes more than 1000 times stronger than it is in standard optical fibers.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

This phenomenon, called Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering, is already known from conventional optical fibers.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

At first I saw only water so clear it magnified the fibers in the walls of the gourd.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston




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