precision
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It also helps that the characters are drawn with precision and nuance, allowing the actors to shape their performances with assurance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
In a 2016 speech to economists, he questioned the precision the Fed claims in measuring inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
No 10 staff are already wondering if they'll ever be able to stick to a regular prime minister's schedule, normally designed with military precision.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Yet every now and then the Strokes, who absolutely ripped at Coachella in April, lock into a groove with the springy precision that’s been the band’s signature since the beginning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
At the table, Mom and Dad would dissect them with precision, leaving no meat to waste.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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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 harsh precisions of the Baileys and Altiora's blunt directness threw up her fineness into relief and made a grace of every weakness.
From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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