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  • present tense form of measure (3rd person singular).
  • plural of measure.
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Among participants aged 70 and older, greater autophagy activity was associated with poorer measures of physical function across all three cell types studied.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Both leaders said they’d never heard of an abuser going to a staffer’s home or of someone in their position needing to institute personal security measures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

On the fiscal side, she called on governments to only use temporary and targeted measures to help ease the burden on the public of high energy and other costs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Batam's water utility had earlier said that it would consider measures like cloud seeding should the water shortage continue.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

In this system, for example, the major whole tone discussed above measures 204 cents, the minor whole tone 182 cents, and a pure fifth is 702 cents.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones



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