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Recent Examples of Synonyms for case-hardening
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Engineers sparingly tried annealing hardware space, so Juno's experience could be instructive for future missions.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025 -
Workable quantum solutions that make use of annealing systems are now in use.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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Photograph from Bettmann / Getty Was the Goetz incident a genuinely significant event, crystallizing something that was passing through the city, and perhaps is still with us today?—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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In this toxic blend, where arsenic reaches deadly concentrations, Li and his team found that the worm has a unique method of crystallizing arsenic inside its own cells to neutralize toxicity.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Nov. 2025
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About the setup In this baseball setup, the robots use soft joints and adaptive control systems to avoid breaking or stiffening up on impact.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Nov. 2025
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Look for signs like the cat stopping purring, stiffening, thrashing their tail, or hissing.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Case-hardening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/case-hardening. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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