- present participle of pace.
pacing
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When Dario Amodei of Anthropic recently called for pacing the frontier, Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed because they already are.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
There’s been some discourse about the art of the slow burn and how the pacing has changed in an era of short episode orders and unpredictable renewals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Ritwik Gupta, a computer science and AI professor at the University of Maryland, believes that pacing the frontier is contingent upon on widespread cooperation among labs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Torres-Pena was pacing the corridor believing he was about to leave, the inquest was told.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
“He’s not home till later,” I mumble, pacing the living room.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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
From time to time he glanced at Dorothy, who sat pencil and note-book ready for the flood of staccatoed sentences that usually accompanied these pacings to and fro.
From John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall by Herbert George Jenkins
