How to Use two bits in a Sentence
two bits
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And it doesn’t get derailed by one or two bits of misfortune on any one night.
—Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 15 May 2026
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If two bits are flipped in a word, ECC can detect that the word is corrupted, but cannot fix it.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2016
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In this example, with two bits to each pixel, six colors are possible (four shown), but a faster bit rate allows more colors.
—Matt Sarnoff, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2020
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Others say that the two bits contributed were to help Poinsett himself keep the lights on (so to speak, of course, this would've been a couple hundred years pre-electricity) in his own tavern.
—Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2026
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Those two bits of inconvenient reality, perhaps more than any others the Oilers face, are what take their comeback attempt from an uphill climb to a mountain summit.
—Sean Gentille, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
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