as in to calibrate
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Recent Examples of caliper
Standard Tornado Red calipers signal to the 99.999999 percent that this is indeed the V-8 trim.
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Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 12 Jan. 2018
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Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 12 Jan. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caliper
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Analysts said any Iranian countermeasure would be carefully calibrated to avoid a devastating escalation.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
23 June 2025
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Williamson, who was inspired by his own experiences growing up in North Carolina with a fisherman father relying on illicit tactics to stay afloat, calibrates every one of the series’ genre tropes to near perfection.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
19 June 2025
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Green gage plums Green gage plums were my father’s favorite and are thought to have originated in Armenia.—
Liza B. Zimmerman,
Forbes,
29 Nov. 2024
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Early voting data is being analyzed to better predict the outcome of the election, with different trends being pulled out to gage a better understanding of whether former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris will be victorious on November 5.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
2 Nov. 2024
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Start with the legal fees, awarding the lawyers $400 million in the settlement, weighed against the paltry sums granted to each of the specific student-athlete plaintiffs.—
Guy Lawson,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2025
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The United States is moving B-2 bombers to the Pacific island of Guam, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Saturday, as President Donald Trump weighs whether the United States should take part in Israel's strikes against Iran.—
Reuters,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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Each wavelength is measured through the McKinlay-Diffey erythema action spectrum.—
Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 June 2025
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These pollutants, which can aggravate asthma and other respiratory conditions, were measured with TEMPO's sensors.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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Police and Young said security video shows a person scaling a wall to the subdivision and then walking directly to Young's home.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
20 June 2025
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This report speculates that female founders—who also cite fundraising as, still, a major challenge—could be looking at AI as a way to scale with less capital and avoid some of those fundraising challenges.—
Emma Hinchliffe,
Fortune,
20 June 2025
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“Caliper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caliper. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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