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While one group concentrated on preparing the Wide Field Instrument, another worked to refine the telescope's overall optical alignment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

There have, however, been deliberate changes in tactics and personnel, with the 53-year-old Tuchel looking to refine his blueprint rather than rewrite it from scratch.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Moving it through a pipeline and into a tanker requires treatment that would add $15 a barrel to its cost, he estimates, not counting the specialized equipment needed to refine it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

According to Asymmetric, the agents were able to refine their techniques in a matter of days, a process that typically takes traditional hackers months or even years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

In his systematic fashion he continued to refine the company’s infrastructure and services—and continued to be extraordinarily successful at escorting amateur climbers to the summits of big, remote mountains.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

The creative team then reviews and refines multiple AI-generated versions of a scene before deciding which expressions and line readings best serve the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Edwin Chen, whose 6-year-old business Surge AI refines AI models, is the wealthiest of the new class of AI billionaires, worth about $18 billion.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 2026

Then there’s the looming threat of “vibe coding,” a term coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy in 2025, in which AI generates and refines code using natural-language prompts.

From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026

China mines about 70%, and refines 90%, of the world’s rare earths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

A race builds itself for a million years, refines itself, erects cities like those out there, does everything it can to give itself respect and beauty, and then it dies.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

A crack spread is the difference between the price of one barrel of crude oil and the price of the refined products made from it, such as gasoline or diesel.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

If any of the refined products - such as diesel or jet fuel - were to be used in the UK, they would then to be reimported.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

The problem isn’t simply expensive crude, but a shortage of refined products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

No dichotomy better represents Berlant’s razor-sharp, thoroughly tasteful wit, which sits halfway between refined humorist and go-for-broke court jester.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

But every time I ask it, the question is refined.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Among projects for the extraction, refining, or recycling of strategic minerals supported by the European Union, five involve tungsten, including two mines.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Beyond refining estimates of the Universe's earliest chemical composition, the new measurement provides an important test of the Standard Model of physics.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

However, Jefferies’s says the performance of Ampol’s refining arm was weaker than expected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

New York Harbor distillate crack spreads, a key measure of U.S. diesel refining margins, are holding above $100 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

In Europe, another innovator, Charles Babbage, born the son of a banker in 1791, was developing an early calculating machine at the time that Morse was refining and evangelizing the telegraph.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel