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Recent Examples of nanosecond 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. 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. Tom Brown, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2025 At this hot cocoon, the researchers suggest the jet's high-energy photons can interact with atomic nuclei, transmuting protons to neutrons incredibly quickly — on the order of a nanosecond. Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025 Currently, MRAMs use electric and magnetic methods to reach nanosecond read and write speeds, like conventional RAMs. IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nanosecond
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Noun
  • Sarandos touted how the streamer has filmed in over 200 cities across Spain, helped support more than 20,000 jobs, The Tres Cantos campus, located about 30 minutes by car north of Madrid, is Netflix’s biggest studio complex in Europe, with 10 soundstages.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2025
  • Despite 80 minutes of hockey down, the Panthers had two forwards, center Jesper Boqvist and Jonah Gadjovich, under 10 minutes of ice time for the game.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Gonzalez said his home run Friday, his second of the season, included a hunting trip.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2025
  • Free charts are often delayed by several seconds or more.
    David Materazzi, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Another system uses the vehicle’s connectivity to assist drivers anticipate road hazards, and still one more monitors whether a driver is actually paying attention to the road and even monitors the driver’s heartbeat to detect his or her stress level.
    Ed Garsten, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities.
    American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • And in the previous season, under Gary O’Neil, Ait-Nouri’s minutes were spread around even more positions as the former Wolves head coach operated a hybrid system, combining a 3-4-3 system similar to Pereira’s with elements of a 4-4-2 at different moments.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 6 June 2025
  • When the man is hauled to Dachau, Charlotte considers this a stroke of luck—a moment that most reveals the ghastly darkness of Charlotte’s heart, but not the last.
    Diana Arterian June 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025

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“Nanosecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nanosecond. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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