meter
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Listeners might feel their pulse slacken as they settle into the music’s soothing triple meter, a recurring cycle of one-two-threes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
At the minute, we all have a meter somewhere in the house which needs to be checked manually to help work out our electricity bill.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
He could run a 1500 meter in 4 minutes and 20 seconds and a 5K in 14 minutes and 50 seconds, his page said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
That fossil pushed the record of blind snakes deeper into the age of dinosaurs and suggested that some early blind snakes were much larger than their living relatives, topping 1 meter in length.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026
Fred was the man who used to read the electric meter at the Beje.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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