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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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Unlike this morning’s last-minute rescue, this trapping has been in the works for a week and planned out with military-like precision.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

Researchers who have studied romantic relationships for decades say that the way feelings change over time may follow patterns that can be modeled with surprising precision.

From Science Daily Sep. 7, 2026

Yet during an overnight sleep study, the Oura was the only wearable on my body that captured my resting heart rate with the same precision as the clinic’s diagnostic tools.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

Ice handling is considered an essential skill for Japanese bartenders, who often begin their training by learning to break it with precision.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

Even though they were already flying combat missions, he made them drill in high-altitude flying and precision dive-bombing.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

Culture they do not need: their dainty hieratic precisions of ritual are a sufficient culture in themselves.

From Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang




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