precision
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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
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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
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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