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Recent Examples of selectivity
All of them had very low rankings for student selectivity and were fairly low for education and career outcomes, but were slightly better ranked for the campus safety and cost and financing rankings.
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Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
One example is neuron selectivity in neural networks for classifying images.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 24 Sep. 2025
For decades, these conversations have largely centered on rankings, selectivity, and return on investment.
—Liz Doe Stone, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The plasma process is also effective on waxy residues left over from other recycling methods, converting them into useful chemicals with over 80% selectivity.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
However, the therapy's selectivity and speed has the potential to be the first low-risk, rapid-response treatment to CO poisoning, where every second is critical in preventing organ damage and death.
—New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2025
Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
One example is neuron selectivity in neural networks for classifying images.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 24 Sep. 2025
For decades, these conversations have largely centered on rankings, selectivity, and return on investment.
—Liz Doe Stone, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The plasma process is also effective on waxy residues left over from other recycling methods, converting them into useful chemicals with over 80% selectivity.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
However, the therapy's selectivity and speed has the potential to be the first low-risk, rapid-response treatment to CO poisoning, where every second is critical in preventing organ damage and death.
—New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for selectivity
Noun
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But is protecting children with disabilities from discrimination really a partisan cause?—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
29 Oct. 2025
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High velocity, nasty breaking stuff, pinpoint location -- Guerrero has hammered them all without discrimination.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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To answer those questions, TIME spoke with Oppenheim and Karbler about the movie’s technical accuracy, its depiction of government response in crisis, and the global temperature on nuclear war.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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To measure my alertness, she’s decided to give me an hourly Psychomotor Vigilance Test, along with some word-fluency exercises and EEG brain scans.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Protein supports muscle growth, energy, and satiety, while coffee boosts alertness and may offer benefits for the heart, liver, and brain.—
Heather Jones,
Verywell Health,
20 Oct. 2025
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Amazed by their radial symmetry and jewel-like skeletons, Haeckel realized that the only way to do radiolarians justice was to draw them with as much precision as possible.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Where traditional shipbuilding relied on labor and scale, the new frontier rewards autonomy, precision, and adaptability — domains where American ingenuity excels.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Selectivity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selectivity. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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