as in accuracy
the quality or state of being very accurate
the company that measures TV ratings prides itself on the precision of its calculations
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Recent Examples of precision
One of the film’s standout moments — the early kidnapping sequence — captures that precision and playfulness.
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Tiana Denicola, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
The poetry lies in the precision, the poetry is in somehow translating sensation and experience into the most forensic language available.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
The brace successfully monitored joint bending while the subject walked, ran, squatted, and jumped, even reconstructing the person’s running gait with precision.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Keeping a human in the loop is essential when AI is deployed in health care, said Noosheen Hashemi, cofounder and CEO of January AI, a precision health care company.
—Claire Zillman, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
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Tiana Denicola, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
The poetry lies in the precision, the poetry is in somehow translating sensation and experience into the most forensic language available.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
The brace successfully monitored joint bending while the subject walked, ran, squatted, and jumped, even reconstructing the person’s running gait with precision.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Keeping a human in the loop is essential when AI is deployed in health care, said Noosheen Hashemi, cofounder and CEO of January AI, a precision health care company.
—Claire Zillman, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for precision
Noun
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Current internal benchmarks from TruthScan demonstrate 97% consistent accuracy in AI content analysis.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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Crucially, the scientists mimicked this process by creating an artificial neural network, and by applying a simple algorithm called gradient descent to increase the accuracy of its predictions.—
James Somers,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Cruise, of course, famously demands perfection from himself, and also holds those around him to a high standard.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Oct. 2025
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The result is 100-point perfection.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Precision.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precision. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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