scales
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Clancy’s lawyer tried to have that person removed—but the judge declined, saying he didn’t want to tip the scales to one side or the other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Some of these structures occur on scales larger than those found almost anywhere else in the Solar System.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
The project is testing quantum behavior at extremely small scales and very high energies while also examining the philosophical questions raised by such experiments, including what they may reveal about the underlying nature of reality.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
From next month, trials will be given a fixed date rather than placed on floating lists in what Burnham said was an effort to "rebalance the scales of justice and put victims first".
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
NOTE: Some music traditions, such as Indian and medieval European, use modes or ragas, which are not quite the same as scales.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
