Thesaurus results for CALIPERING

calipering

verb

present participle of caliper

as in calibrating

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Mining company 3 Proton Lithium (3PL) wants to develop the site, but around a third of it is located in lands reserved for NASA to use for calibrating Earth-observing satellites.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2026
The entire system has been designed to be easy to use, from calibrating the G1X for the first time to creating models to filling ink to swapping print beds.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 July 2026

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For the fifth consecutive year, The Athletic has ranked the head coaches of the Football Bowl Subdivision into eight tiers, weighing everything from resume to resources to longevity and more.

— Chris Vannini, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
California lawmakers are weighing whether to take action after videos surfaced showing an electric-shock glove that may soon be used as part of federal immigration enforcement.

— Steve Large, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026

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Researchers can look for this signal by measuring the average vertical direction of the positrons produced when the muons decay.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
The psychologists Fredrickson and Joiner have tested this theory, measuring 138 people.

— Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026

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Participation in the program plummeted after the passage of a 2023 law that made outdoor dining permanent while also scaling it back significantly.

— Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
Ukraine says Russia is scaling up its production of ballistic missiles, aiming to exploit Kyiv's critical shortage of Patriot air defense interceptors that can stop them.

— CBS News, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026

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In a news release shared Wednesday, LASD officials said that multiple warrants were served as part of an investigation spanning across Southern California, including in LA, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
If Yellowstone erupts again, the most probable outcome is not a continent-spanning explosion.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026

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The figure is meant to make the play both more credible and more threatening, quantifying both what Paramount stands to gain and what California stands to lose.

— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026
The challenge lies in quantifying these long-term preventive benefits, which differ greatly from traditional automation metrics.

— TerDawn DeBoe, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

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