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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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The tobacco trials — which took place over decades but began to shift in favor of plaintiffs in the ’90s — similarly saw various types of plaintiffs file a wave of lawsuits, contributing to the release of internal documents and testing new legal theories.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
22 Feb. 2026
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Analysts offer competing, somewhat contradictory theories about the software selloff.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
22 Feb. 2026
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Blais, who founded Blackbird in 2020, appeared to address the public concerns in the lengthy statement, calling for an end to speculation about the disaster.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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And with speculation about what forced the slugger to miss time, head coach Michael Earley joined TexAgs Thursday morning and provided clarity on the situation.—
Tony Catalina,
Austin American Statesman,
19 Feb. 2026
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No more leaning on hypotheticals.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 Feb. 2026
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With so many decisions to make, the Chiefs would have to get awfully creative to extend cornerback Trent McDuffie (who is entering the final year of his contract), which is why his name has floated in trade hypotheticals.—
Pete Sweeney,
Kansas City Star,
5 Feb. 2026
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So, one hypothesis would be that your friend’s toddler got sick, and those invaders killed off a lot of his beneficial gut microbes.—
Adam Cohen,
Oklahoman,
17 Feb. 2026
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However, instead of being a dead end for the Chrysalis hypothesis, the simulations opened another door, and the key was another moon of Saturn, Hyperion, which orbits just beyond Titan.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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The investment thesis continues to be that these stocks should provide a better risk/reward and a margin of safety as volatility is here to stay.—
Jeff Kilburg,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2026
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All this is not to say, however, that Sternhell’s thesis on the French origins of fascism should be taken for granted.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
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Serial killers have played peek-a-boo guessing games with investigators, and the names and whereabouts of some of their victims are never to be known.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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The truth is, today's tax scams don't rely on random guessing.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Dead reckoning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead%20reckoning. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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