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calipers

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present tense third-person singular of caliper

as in scales

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As adoption scales from a pilot of a few hundred employees to thousands of AI agents running continuously across customer service, product data and supply chain workflows, token costs become a bigger deal.

— Adrian Carr, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
To quantify this effect, the team modeled the drop as a conducting sphere hovering over a conducting wall, then calculated how the field strength scales with distance.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026

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Another neat trick this TV has up its sleeve is an AI light sensor that gauges the room's ambient light and automatically adjusts the screen brightness to it.

— Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
San Diego earned a 78 out of 100 Redfin Compete Score, which gauges how competitive a market is.

— Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 16 July 2026

Definition of gauges

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The company calibrates screen uniformity at the factory and uses software compensation to maintain performance as the display ages.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
As per usual with Sonos, the Beam delivers an immersive sound that calibrates itself to the room its in.

— Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 8 July 2026

Definition of calibrates

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Ivan's driver, a cheerful man in a balaclava, tells them that the bus weighs seventy thousand pounds.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
Its core commitments are voluntary and informed participation, minimization of harm to participants, confidentiality and prior approval by an institutional review board that weighs risk against scientific value.

— Arie Perliger, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of weighs

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The minimum safe thickness is a threshold that measures a tank’s ability to contain the pressure of the liquid and support the tank’s weight, the report said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
According to Society For American Baseball Research (SABR) Defensive Index, the club measures favorably at each infield position.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2026

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