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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calipering
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Whatever the majority decides, there will likely be a dissent and both sides will be carefully calibrating their writing.—
Mark Sherman,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026 -
In calibrating that tonal balance, Watts looked to a reference point outside the world of horror movies.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
21 Jan. 2026
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Maryam Zar, who formed a community group to help guide the recovery from the Palisades fire, is also weighing a mayoral bid — and doesn’t plan to decide until the final day.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Analysts say Beijing may be weighing trade, investment and other measures to respond – and dissuade other countries in the region from taking similar steps.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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Recessed within the wall will be a rectangular cavity measuring three feet by seven feet—the outline of a grave.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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The consultancy has a role in advising, managing, activating and measuring more than $5 billion in client partnerships across sports, entertainment, gaming and corporate social responsibility.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
9 Feb. 2026
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The aircraft transitioned cleanly between modes, a step developers see as critical for scaling eVTOLs beyond short hops.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Feb. 2026
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Ives pointed to the difficulty scaling up enterprise AI tools for use at large companies with thousands of employees, who’ve developed processes using other products.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday a major investment package in Syria spanning energy, aviation, real estate and telecommunications, as the kingdom positions itself as a leading backer of Syria’s new leadership.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
8 Feb. 2026
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The Columbia River Basin, spanning an area roughly the size of Texas, was once the world's greatest salmon-producing river system, with at least 16 stocks of salmon and steelhead.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Feb. 2026
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So in response to calls to fix the issue — which grew louder in 2020 and 2021 as medicine reckoned with its history of perpetuating racial inequities — the FDA funded a study to generate prospective data in the clinic quantifying the bias.—
Anil Oza,
STAT,
12 Jan. 2026
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Colorado doesn’t have any way of quantifying whether areas need more hospital beds, and health systems generally described their recent projects as bringing specific types of care closer to communities, rather than relieving a crunch on their existing facilities.—
Meg Wingerter,
Denver Post,
31 Dec. 2025
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“Calipering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calipering. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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