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Recent Examples of two bits
Those two bits of inconvenient reality, perhaps more than any others the Oilers face, are what take their comeback attempt from an uphill climb to a mountain summit.
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Sean Gentille, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Others say that the two bits contributed were to help Poinsett himself keep the lights on (so to speak, of course, this would've been a couple hundred years pre-electricity) in his own tavern.
—Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2026
In this example, with two bits to each pixel, six colors are possible (four shown), but a faster bit rate allows more colors.
—Matt Sarnoff, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2020
Sean Gentille, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Others say that the two bits contributed were to help Poinsett himself keep the lights on (so to speak, of course, this would've been a couple hundred years pre-electricity) in his own tavern.
—Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2026
In this example, with two bits to each pixel, six colors are possible (four shown), but a faster bit rate allows more colors.
—Matt Sarnoff, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2020
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“Two bits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two%20bits. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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