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Recent Examples of dead reckoning
The principle is a very old and simple one called dead reckoning – a very basic skill used by tyro sailors and nuclear submarine commanders.
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New Atlas, 2 Dec. 2025
To gauge longitude, by contrast, requires dead reckoning.
—The Conversation, 14 May 2025
Born in Marblehead, Mass., Ellen Creesy learned how to pilot a vessel from her father, who also taught her the rudiments of navigation: dead reckoning and how to read a nautical chart.
—Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2022
But for longitude, navigators had to rely on dead reckoning that was subject to errors.
—Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
There is also straightforward dead reckoning and inertial navigation.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2021
The researchers modeled the animals’ behavior using a variety of math ideas and the navigational concept of dead reckoning.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2021
Fraunhofer Portugal has substantially improved this dead reckoning approach by recognizing that a human exhibits consistent cyclical motions while walking.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Nov. 2014
New Atlas, 2 Dec. 2025
To gauge longitude, by contrast, requires dead reckoning.
—The Conversation, 14 May 2025
Born in Marblehead, Mass., Ellen Creesy learned how to pilot a vessel from her father, who also taught her the rudiments of navigation: dead reckoning and how to read a nautical chart.
—Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2022
But for longitude, navigators had to rely on dead reckoning that was subject to errors.
—Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
There is also straightforward dead reckoning and inertial navigation.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2021
The researchers modeled the animals’ behavior using a variety of math ideas and the navigational concept of dead reckoning.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2021
Fraunhofer Portugal has substantially improved this dead reckoning approach by recognizing that a human exhibits consistent cyclical motions while walking.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Nov. 2014
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dead reckoning
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At universities, the study of ancient Chinese texts has historically been scattered across disciplines; now, under government direction, universities are trying to gather that scholarship in new classics departments where, one theory goes, ancient truths can be nurtured and passed down.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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His panels included doctors, physicists, engineers and others and their reports in 2020 and 2022, proposed a theory of the incidents.—
Will Croxton,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Husso, who stopped 16 shots in the first period and 13 in both the second and third, had a timely performance amid speculation the Ducks are pursuing a backup goalie behind Lukas Dostal before Friday’s trade deadline.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Maas answered some, dodged others, and dropped a few hints that will fuel months of new speculation.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2026
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And after a seventh-straight loss and a second straight season left spiraling, hypotheticals could only carry USC and its coach so far.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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If hypotheticals about what could have been are a good dream for New York Knicks fans, then Mikal Bridges is the alarm clock that startles them awake.—
James L. Edwards III,
New York Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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Though the data does not explain this difference entirely, the working hypothesis is that the greater velocity often involved with e-bikes plays a significant role.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
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In biological anthropology, it's called the drunken monkey hypothesis.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
9 Mar. 2026
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That could be good news for companies like Versant, which are banking on sports rights becoming available under the same thesis that Discovery Global would have had.—
Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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The book is also partly an adaption of a thesis paper that Dapier wrote a decade ago as a graduate student of library sciences at University of Illinois.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2026
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That's a lot of hemming and hawing, a lot of second- and triple-guessing, and a bevy of rewatches to gauge the worthiness of being part of a historically significant canon.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
8 Mar. 2026
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For both players, there was no second-guessing.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
28 Feb. 2026
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