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• Overall, the length of the base pairing between the guide RNAs and the genome is on the order of 18 bases long.
  — ArsTechnica, 24 July 2026
• The brain compares the relative signal strength across these three channels and reconstructs something on the order of a million distinguishable colors.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
• The exact match time for Serena's first Wimbledon match depends on the order of play, which will be released the night before on the tournament's official website.
  — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
• However, in reality, the number of collisions is expected to be on the order of several billion per second and will produce so much data that scientists won’t even be able to store it.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
• Estimates put Japan's recent intervention on the order of $60 billion to $80 billion.
  — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
• Goldman Sachs projects on the order of $5 trillion of capital expenditures from these companies through 2030 across compute, data centers, and power.
  — Michael Wee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
• The authors discuss leakage and superior forecasting, and include profit implications on the order of $20 million per year in the S&P E‑mini futures market since 2008.
  — Yasin Dus, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026