calipers

present tense third-person singular of caliper

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Verb
  • The team is rounded out by Asia Stocchi, who takes on distribution and development coordination duties as the company scales up operations.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The real test is whether governments, corporations, and consumers can demand an AI ecosystem that scales sustainably.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The diffusion index in the jobs report gauges the concentration of growth.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In business, profit margins are a performance metric that gauges the extent to which businesses are making money, similar to how the number of games a baseball team leads its division by determines its standing.
    Mark LaSota, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The VitaFreshPro system calibrates temperature settings for different food zones, while dual compressors eliminate odor transfer between compartments.
    Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The system reads the current and calibrates it to reflect an estimate of blood alcohol concentration, or BAC.
    Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2016
Verb
  • Marketed as a low-cost cruise missile, Crossbow weighs about 750 kilograms (around 1,650 pounds), carries a 300-kilogram (660-pound) modular payload, and can fly more than 800 kilometers (500 miles) at high subsonic speeds.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Using a combination of titanium and carbon fiber, the TiSeat weighs around 6 kilograms, achieving a 30% weight reduction compared to traditional seating.
    Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The companies are doing this as the NFL measures its long-term approach to prediction markets, which have emerged as a fast-growing alternative to traditional sportsbooks and operate outside state regulations.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Odds for a quarter-point cut were around 88% on Monday afternoon, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch tool that measures odds of Fed action based on 30-day fed funds futures contracts.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Calipers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calipers. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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