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From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The authority of the ICJ was built on the precise legal definitions established by figures like Raphael Lemkin, who coined “genocide,” and Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, who helped shaped the concept of “crimes against humanity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
That could allow researchers to perform more precise experiments while reducing the need for multiple devices inserted into the brain.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Then, they snapped the ball at the precise moment the receiver was between center Jake Slaughter and the quarterback.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
His insistence on being more precise than Archimedes goes back into his youth, when he had devised an instrument, the balincetta, which would make more exact measurements of specific gravities than any made before.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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