- present participle of print.
printing
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Aside from OpenAI and Anthropic, however, SemiAnalysis highlights one other company that is capable of printing such economics: Microsoft .
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
The timeline for 3-D printing a shoe is 1-3 days, which he said is a 75% reduction compared with ordering a prototype from an overseas factory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Working with the University of Sheffield, the firm introduced 3D metal printing to make new product development a faster and less expensive process.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Alan Scott, Legacy Effects’ co-founder, said 3-D printing has become central to the company’s survival in an industry where budgets are tighter and deadlines are shorter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
The printing press was the precondition for this new insistence that knowledge, no longer authoritative, might at last become reliable.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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He’s “surprised” by the success that “Life at the Bottom” has had in several countries—particularly the Netherlands, where it has gone through 14 printings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Emperor Shomu had encouraged the spread of Buddhism by ordering a temple to be built in every province and block printings of Buddhist scriptures to be disseminated to the general populace.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
But Griswold's edition went through 19 printings in the 15 years after Poe's death, and his stories and poems have been endlessly reprinted and translated ever since.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023
The hospice said the editions of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King were first editions, but not first printings.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2022
That wouldn’t happen until February 1998, when it would hit the charts and stay there, through 48 printings and 2.5 million copies.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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