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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

"Each new phase of Galkynysh so far tends to reinforce the Chinese vector rather than genuinely diversify it," Narymbetov said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

“Ravenel Approach, this is Marine 657. I have a fire warning light. Request penetration and vector for expedited landing. Over.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

Platner’s tattoo, then, is a particularly charged showdown between vectors of progressivism headed in opposite directions—the old world and the new.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026

While high-dimensional vectors can be compressed through vector quantization, that technique comes with its own memory issues as it requires calculating and storing additional data, “partially defeating the purpose of vector quantization,” Google said.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026

The virus is so contagious that any misstep could kill the patient on board and infect the crew members, who would then be vectors to spread the deadly pathogens across America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

In short, diseases represent evolution in progress, and microbes adapt by natural selection to new hosts and vectors.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

An F-47 aircraft on combat air patrol in the area was vectored in visually, spotted a light, and closed on it.

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

The axles use open differentials and brake-based torque vectoring to articulate power left or right—an ability that could make the difference between getting to the ski resort or glumly waiting for a tow truck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

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

One idea Lexus put forward with this concept is something called “Direct4,” which is the automaker’s version of torque vectoring that would drive power to each wheel independently, improving grip in high-performance situations.

From The Verge ● Apr. 5, 2022

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

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2019

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 Ruppelt, Edward J.