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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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They include dozens of 5-foot-8-inch, 160-pound robots on two legs or wheels, called Apollo, that trade the intense precision of a traditional robot for flexibility and mobility.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

In Germany, a country once known for precision, punctuality and trains that run on time, that is a work in progress.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

To others, though, “marketing engineer” is just the latest in the industry’s procession of faddish titles, this time enlisting AI to suggest a level of precision and control that marketers aren’t always credited for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Their British approach to R&B prized tightness, clarity, and buoyant precision over the loose, improvisational grit often associated with American soul.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

I could not understand how muntu could refer to a living person or a dead one with equal precision, but Nelson just shrugged.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

And yet an EUV alone is a nearly miraculous human achievement, capable of working at scales and precisions that are difficult to fathom.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

“We can create these models that basically let us know the time of arrival to precisions that rival atomic clocks,” says Thankful Cromartie, an astrophysicist at Cornell University and a member of NANOGrav.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2023

It’s in these precisions that the historical and sociological force of her work registers.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023

They will have to decide which qubits in the computer to use and how to deal with ranges of operational fidelities and low-level precisions that are foreign to most modern programmers.

From Nature ● Sep. 12, 2017

Life is not a mumble mumble but a clear voice teeming with precisions.

From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht




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