byte
Example Sentences
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He included the bite mark for scale to set the apple apart from similar round fruit like cherries -- learning only later it was a homonym for the computer term "byte".
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
He was a darling of business journalists because of his accessibility and willingness to give a quick byte or quote, and his views were much sought after.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2022
And that a byte of data on a mobile increases the phone’s mass by one quectogram?
From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2022
On Tuesday, Ramsay took to Instagram to share a sound byte from Steve Allen’s recent LBC Radio program in which he fielded a viewer question about her being on "Celebrity Master Chef Australia."
From Fox News • Oct. 20, 2021
Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.