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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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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

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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