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The criticism died down only after shaving off nanoseconds became widespread, making the strategy less profitable.
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The new prototype, still very far from being practical, took femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second) to charge and stored the energy for nanoseconds.
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In Saturday’s 79-76 victory over the Nets, Acuff scored 25 points and Clifford hit a game-winning 3-pointer with five seconds remaining.
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Bellingham scored two goals 98 seconds apart in the first half, and six minutes after Jarell Quansah was sent off, Kane converted a penalty to restore England’s two-goal lead.
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About 45 minutes before another World Cup match in Houston, a message from astronauts aboard the International Space Station noting the holiday was beamed into the stadium.
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The capital’s traditional Independence Day show had 10,000 shells lasting 18 minutes.
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Recent instants, according to the company, will be saved in an archive that's private and only accessible to the user who takes it.
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Elle has become a collector of sounds, wandering the city with a pocket recorder in hand, creating what are, in effect, sonic images of instants stretched out into time.
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Another study showed wildland firefighters were far more likely to be diagnosed with hypertension and irregular heartbeats.
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As many little heartbeats as possible, just running around, wrecking stuff in the house.
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“Microseconds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microseconds. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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