rigor
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"We will move with urgency and scientific rigor to support the response and help bring a potential vaccine closer to the communities that need it most," said Stéphane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
“And you aren’t raising rigor, just forcing relative grading.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Because when you strip away the scaffolding, when you set aside the tone and the length and the performance of rigor, what remains is not complicated at all.
From Slate • May 8, 2026
So it took a real rigor for me to know that if I wasn’t where I needed to be, I had to get better.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
There’s an old joke, told in Simon Singh’s excellent book Fermat’s Last Theorem, that gives a sense of the different degree of rigor of mathematical proof.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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