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guidepost

noun

Definition of guidepost

as in evidence

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Recent Examples of guidepost His philanthropy and land conservation efforts and protection of the American bison became guideposts during his retirement years. — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026 That any guidepost is reliable is an illusion. — Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026 And staff are finding visitor requests helpful as a guidepost in deciding future exhibitions. — Valerie Rains, Time, 12 Mar. 2026 Warnock says Jackson's legacy should serve as a guidepost today. — Debbie Elliott, NPR, 26 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for guidepost

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Noun

And there is also evidence the pattern carries across to the Copa America.

— Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 July 2026
Officers were initially called for reports of shots fired in the area and arrived to find evidence of a shooting.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 14 July 2026

Definition of evidence

Noun

From there Nebula chained a handful of steps to escalate the dangling pointer into full control, ending by tricking the kernel into executing their code as root.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026
But Jacy Sheldon sealed it at the other end with a 3-pointer for her only points of the game.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026

Definition of pointer

Noun

Instead of using a remote or control panel, the player moves into position and signals with a simple hand gesture for the ball, and the AI biometrics locate and pinpoint the player position.

— Shirl Leigh July 13, New Atlas, 13 July 2026
This asymmetric expression could rig up motor circuitry, such as an abundance of neurons with long, signal-carrying fibers, that leads to more involuntary movement on one side than the other.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 13 July 2026

Definition of signal

Noun

And unlike LLMs, which primarily model sequences of tokens, LTMs model the structure of tabular data directly.

— Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2026
That model can operate in three tiers, with the most expensive and high-performance costing $5 for a million input tokens and $30 for a million output tokens.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026

Definition of token

Noun

Still, the pieces of ceiling trim dedicated to the pillars of courage and trust remained missing, a nod perhaps to the traits most easily lost when disaster strikes – and most needed to rebuild.

— Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people — including current events and the sights and sounds of the United States.

— Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026

Definition of trait

Noun

Police say the mother wrapped a metal chain around the child's waist, secured the other end to the property's fence and left her there before driving away.

— Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 14 July 2026
There’s a house on the property where Francis Ford Coppola filmed Vito Corleone avenging his mother’s death in The Godfather Part II, but Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were interested in a much older tale about Sicily—one of gods and mortals.

— Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 14 July 2026

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