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Recent Examples of microsecondEvery microsecond counts, and data needs to be trusted absolutely; win-or-lose decisions depend on it.—Hugo Feiler, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024 Every instant at which the brightness change exceeds a certain threshold, with microsecond timing.—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2024 Thanks to a creative retrofit of an old U-2 spy plane courtesy of NASA, however, researchers are finally able to conduct direct analysis of these microsecond bursts of radioactive energy that occur across the planet every day.—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2024 Trading & Investment Platforms Coinbase and Kraken use machine learning to detect fraud in microseconds while analyzing complex market patterns beyond human capability.—Roomy Khan, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for microsecond
This would suck capital investment back to America in a nanosecond and financially seduce companies to reshore factories, labs and headquarters back here with bargain-low tax rates.
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Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
14 May 2025
For just a moment, Mexico's Global Navigation Satellite System plunged out of sync by almost 80 nanoseconds — one billionth-of-a-second disruptions that risk financial markets and GPS navigation.
Related Articles But an explosive seven minutes clinched the Panthers’ victory, sending Florida to its third straight Eastern Conference final with a 6-1 win over the Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Sunday.
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Adam Lichtenstein,
Sun Sentinel,
19 May 2025
Picking up that camera turned out to be a fateful move and the results of that documentation — all 145 minutes of it, shaped from 800 hours of footage — will be unveiled at Cannes with LaBeouf taking a seat in Buñuel Theatre.
The fantasy series about a cosmic entity who lords over the domain of dreams will have a split second season, with the 6-episode Volume 1 premiering on July 3 and the 5-episode Volume 2 premiering on July 24.
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Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
17 Apr. 2025
In another split second that plane would have exploded in flames.
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.
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