precision
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There is precision here, but there is also abundant joy.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Researchers led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have now developed a method designed to measure these seasonal shifts with exceptional precision.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
The firm also pointed to US chemist and biologist David Liu for developing "precision gene editing technologies that directly edit DNA in living systems".
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
For years the American military failed to destroy a single bridge at Thanh Hóa—not for lack of bombs, but for lack of precision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Where Anatole France’s work had been about ideas and wit, and Thomas Mann had been about precision and the ordering of character and plot, Honoré de Balzac, to me, was all about character.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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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
The first includes a greatest vocabulary proper names by alphabetical order; and the second forty three Dialogues adapted to the usual precisions of the life.
From English as she is spoke or, A jest in sober earnest by José da Fonseca
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