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“Within our service area, the five-year average for West Nile Virus-positive mosquito samples at this point in the season is approximately four,” said Caroline Gongora, public information coordinator for the vector control district.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

“The threat vector has gone from Taylor Swift and Scarlett Johansson to anyone who has a single image of themselves online,” said Hany Farid, a digital forensics professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

I first came to wear the badge of foodie in college in the aughts, a time when the term meant leading with curiosity, a vector for discovering and exploring new cultures and ideas.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

Hurricanes turned out to be a vector for spreading the little winged bug.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

"You'd be eyeballing the intercept and using a thrust vector you can barely control."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Searching for "secret information" that could help it cheat the evaluation, the OpenAI system "chained together multiple attack vectors, including using stolen credentials".

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Light possesses many characteristics that researchers can manipulate, including its intensity, phase, polarization, spin, and its electric and magnetic field vectors.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

A former Jack Smith prosecutor and a veteran corruption reporter map the vectors for lawlessness that many have missed.

From Slate ● May 23, 2026

The algorithm addresses vectors, which help AI models understand and process simple to complex information.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026

Ifx represents the vector of variables, b and c are vectors of known coefficients, and A is a matrix of coefficients, determine the maximum value of the objective function cTx .

From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman

You can feel the vectored torque tugging at the wheel as it fights off understeer in a tight turn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

“If that is the case it will raise questions about how it is vectored between such geographically separated sites.”

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2023

Pentagon spokesman John Supple said the military has no reports of “aircraft being inappropriately vectored in the region mentioned” in the notice.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

“The results are plausible, and not very different to those seen with other AdV vectored products,” he said.

From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2020

The two jets were vectored into the areas where the radar had shown the last target plots, but even though the visibility was excellent they could see nothing.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

But “Death of an Author” is arguably the first halfway readable A.I. novel, an early glimpse at what is vectoring toward readers.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

He said that’s a much more advanced method of thrust vectoring than a previous method traditionally used on the North’s solid motor missiles.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

Of the more than 3,500 mosquito species, only a few hundred are capable of vectoring disease.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2019

But on the very sharp switchbacks, my AWD with torque vectoring pulls through the tight corners in a way that his rear-wheel GT2 simply can’t.

From The Verge ● Jun. 21, 2016

The reporters and photographers were asked to leave the radar room on the pretext that classified radio frequencies and procedures were being used in vectoring the interceptors.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt