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pace

[peys] / peɪs /


VERB
walk with measured steps, esp. back and forth
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VERB
measure by footsteps
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While regulations have been temporarily updated in each election, researchers say they aren’t robust enough to match the lightning pace of the latest technological advancements.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

The midfielder was off the pace and never came out for the second half.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

Tsarukyan, as he had done for much of his career, sought to use his wrestling skills to change the pace of the fight.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

New heated debates are flaring up across the industry as CEOs, researchers and policymakers grapple with what it means to pace the frontier.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

I wish Jonah were here next to me, but it also kind of feels right that I’m not keeping pace with him or Celia or anyone else.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The UK edition of Drag Race has been putting hopeful contestants through their paces for seven years - plenty of time for a new wave of talent raised on the hit reality show to emerge.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

"As expected, we didn't detect gamma rays from Mars, but we put the instrument through its paces, and it performed excellently."

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

The team plans to travel to Kenya next month to put the car through its paces.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

A chatbot can fool an adult anytime but a toddler could spot a fake at 50 paces.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

I regretted my generosity before I’d even gone twenty paces.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

She said it is a "hands on, fast paced" job.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

"He's done something to his leg as well and he was quite tired. It was a high paced, fast fight for both the guys."

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

Shirtless, he paced relentless circles on the blacktop.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

The ascent of a towering Aleppo pine — not one of the trees slated for removal — was a quiet and slowly paced piece de la resistance.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

A ten-minute drive away, Sergei Khrushchev paced from room to room in the family dacha, wondering what the Presidium was doing.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Amodei also said pacing would not mean halting model training or technical progress.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

On Saturday, in the “hot goss” channel within Google’s DeepMind AI lab, a worker posted about Altman agreeing with Amodei, saying it seemed like a sign of momentum toward pacing frontier AI development.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

The watchword of those efforts, pacing, essentially means putting rules in place that would give companies more time to design A.I. guardrails.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

A barrage of newly concocted action sequences in the second half makes the pacing so off-balance that the film feels like a heron trying to fly with one blinged-out wing.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

He lets go of Ainsley’s desk and starts pacing back and forth at the front of the room.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein




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