meter
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Voters will mark ballots that are almost half a meter long and feature a head-scratching 35 presidential candidates.
From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026
"If you open up that water meter, it gives them full access to the entire supply of the whole city," Taylor told the BBC.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
For comparison, a nanometer is one billionth of a meter, far smaller than anything visible to the human eye.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
Last week, the city released a statement saying it had locked the warehouse’s water meter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
He feared anyone in uniform: the meter maid giving out parking tickets, a museum guard approaching to tell him not to get too close to his favorite Goya.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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