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Recent Examples of microsecondWhen the outage started on Wednesday, some of NIST’s on-campus time distribution systems lapsed before the backup generator kicked in, causing a four-microsecond delay to the atomic clock, Jacobson said.—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 Dec. 2025 For example, 5G needs to be accurate to within a tenth of a microsecond.—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 Dec. 2025 And if a hundred fish come out of the water, the AI snaps pictures of that hundred fish, identifies those fish, and puts that into the package in a microsecond.—Dan Morrison, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025 As Traders Magazine notes, even a 200-microsecond delay—caused simply by the physical distance between venues—can determine who executes first and who suffers slippage and adverse selection in fast-moving markets.—Ashok Reddy, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for microsecond
And in this sport, every nanosecond makes a difference.
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Lindsay Schnell,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
The new prototype, still very far from being practical, took femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second) to charge and stored the energy for nanoseconds.
For more than four minutes Darnold drove downfield, connecting on three of four passes, baffling the pass rushers, bleeding the clock, and by the time the Seahawks finally gave the ball back, the Rams had only 25 seconds to live.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
Left-hander Sam Moll got Matt Olson to ground out with the bases loaded for his first save, the second of his career.
While the cart was only traveling a few miles per hour, the corner of the stretcher lying on the back of it appeared to squarely connect with the player's upper thigh, sending him to the turf in an instant.
Rather than relying solely on external commands, the system monitors the insect’s heartbeat, neural activity, and body motion to determine its internal state and decide whether stimulation should be applied.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
30 May 2026
Doctors and nurses with Doppler machines and ultrasounds kept showing up, forcing them to hear the heartbeat and see the movement of a tiny body.
Braking in corners, over elevation changes, or when crossing irregularities has little effect on your direction of travel, and your rate of travel can be halved or eliminated in a trice.