finite
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This led to what Ricardo Caballero, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dubbed the “safe-asset shortage”: As investors’ demand for supersafe assets collided with a finite supply, yields plummeted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Destroying a camera sends a strong and unmistakable message: They are finite, physical entities, just like us.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
To determine how the system worked, the researchers combined in situ spectroscopy, photochemical analysis, finite element simulations, and theoretical calculations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
"Some of these minerals are finite and future generations may never see them. We do not want them to inherit white elephants," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
One therefore has a theory that seems to predict that certain quantities, such as the curvature of space-time, are really infinite, yet these quantities can be observed and measured to be perfectly finite!
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Vocabulary lists containing finite
100 SAT Words Beginning with "F"
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Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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Algebra
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