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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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The results highlight the potential of precision medicine, an approach that considers individual characteristics, including genetics, when determining which treatments may be most effective.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

"This research is an example of precision medicine, as we work to identify who can benefit from this drug the most."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

The U.S. has recently been upgrading and extending its array of precision deep-strike missiles, including Tomahawk cruise missiles and Atacms rockets, while developing new systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

While UK rules remain mostly aligned with EU ones, there are some areas where England has diverged from the EU rule book, for example on "precision breeding" of plants, previously known as gene editing.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

It should also be noted that some music traditions around the world do not use the type of precision tunings described above, not because they can't, but because of an aesthetic preference for wide tuning.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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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