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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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"A defining feature of the chip was precision current injection, which we used to permeabilize neuronal membranes for intracellular access," Ham said.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

Over mint tea, Mr. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha speaks with the precision of a man who has watched history vindicate and betray his dynasty in equal measure.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

“There needs to be a real push to reconcile the entire defense industry—make it more efficient, have it produce more of what’s needed,” including air defense, deep precision strike and unmanned systems.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

"What we saw from France was precision and devastation," former England full-back Gary Neville told ITV Sport.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

There were so many people out there, hunting so competitively, that it is often not possible to say with any precision who discovered what.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

They catch the idea readily and practice their teachers' precisions and pruderies upon the family.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane




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