parameter
Example Sentences
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The top executive at bitcoin’s biggest corporate owner has laid out the parameters that would force his company to sell some of its $56 billion worth of the cryptocurrency.
From MarketWatch
“The trust is one way to put on some parameters,” he said.
Our initial distrust of UNOS, the contractor that runs the transplantation network, began when it changed the liver allocation policy by adjusting the geographic parameters guiding which patients receive donated organs.
From Washington Post
Rather than procure an abortion, as Zhang wants her to, she could give birth and, through an adoption arrangement whose parameters are continually being renegotiated throughout, settle her mother’s outstanding debts.
From Los Angeles Times
When Bing’s chatbot went off the rails with a New York Times reporter, engineers couldn’t easily just say, “Oh, whoops, I set that parameter wrong; let me fix that.”
From Seattle Times
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