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known

[nohn] / noʊn /


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In the hybrid system, customers buy an allotment of usage tokens, as the basic unit of AI computing is known.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Instead, they likely relied on chemicals for energy, a process known as chemosynthetic.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

None, obviously, came close to the 10% pullback known as a correction, which by Carlson’s reckoning occurs on average every 1.8 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The result was modes known as 'overtake' and 'boost'.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The rocks became bigger, the trees smaller; then the trees were left behind entirely as they streamed out onto a stone flatness like nothing he’d ever known.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver