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pacing

[pey-sing] / ˈpeɪ sɪŋ /


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

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

Torres-Pena was pacing the corridor believing he was about to leave, the inquest was told.

From BBC 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

“We wanted to prove that you can do something different,” he said, pacing through his facility in the Kapaa Industrial Park.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

She kept pacing back and forth by her cellar door.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Much of Mr. Roberts’s movement for that quartet of dancers, despite some upper-body torsioning and unison pacings, presents repeated articulations for their arms, suggesting the flapping of wings, which grows monotonous.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 13, 2025

The rising United Kingdom-based bandleader Nala Sinephro plays harp and electronics, with a pull toward weightless sounds and meditative pacings, so comparisons to Alice Coltrane are inevitable.

From New York Times Dec. 31, 2021

In the 20th century, technology made it ever easier to regulate the production of sound, with electronic music allowing for perfectly even pacings.

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2017

Once, in the midst of his pacings, he fell right off his platform.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the first turn the Pongo soldiers set up a low and eerie chant which they continued during its whole length, that according to my pacings was something over three hundred yards.

From Allan and the Holy Flower by Henry Rider Haggard




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