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meter

[mee-ter] / ˈmi tər /


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Singsong rhyme and meter are out; free verse and wistfulness are in.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Samples collected in the São Paolo metropolitan area in Brazil reached 98 nanograms per cubic meter.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta have the scale to negotiate long-term power-purchase agreements directly with generators, build generation capacity behind the meter and lock in rates before the open market reprices.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

“Grid interconnection delays are continuing to expand, which, given the market’s focus on speed-to-compute, has accelerated adoption and long-term behind the meter power solutions.”

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

Killjoy style manuals tell writers to avoid alliteration, but good prose is enlivened with moments of poetry, like this line with its pleasing meter and its impish pairing of marital and medical.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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