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dead reckoning

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Recent Examples of dead reckoning The principle is a very old and simple one called dead reckoning – a very basic skill used by tyro sailors and nuclear submarine commanders. — New Atlas, 2 Dec. 2025 But for longitude, navigators had to rely on dead reckoning that was subject to errors. — Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021 There is also straightforward dead reckoning and inertial navigation. — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2021 The vehicle could still work out position updates using rotary encoders attached to its wheels—following a general strategy that sailors used for centuries, called dead reckoning. — Shaoshan Liu, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Feb. 2020

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Some universities have a long standing tradition of continually testing students’ ability to explain and rationalise their theories.

— Reynald Fasciaux, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
The defense said the government’s theory is unsupported and urged the judge to dismiss the charges.

— Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of theory

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Sánchez's government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week when right-wing opposition parties voted down emergency decrees introduced by his government to address evictions and real estate speculation.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
For months, there has been rampant speculation about a possible reunion between Tyreek Hill and the Chiefs — much of it fueled by posts Hill has made on social media.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2026

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When asked about why voters should choose him over Vance, who is seen as the GOP’s likeliest presidential candidate, Kennedy did not wade into hypotheticals.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
Some analysts voiced skepticism about the risk of a societal-scale attack carried out by AI, however, noting that such warnings typically come in the form of vague hypotheticals.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of hypothetical

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Among the results claimed are a solution to the four-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, improvements on some of the world’s most important computer algorithms, and actual progress toward math’s scariest problem, the Riemann hypothesis.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2026
The corroded terminal, the location, 30 seconds of video of the noise, the hypothesis that was ruled out.

— Julien Vantyghem, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of hypothesis

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Jackson gives you a whole clan of old-money Brooklyn Heights Stocktons, but the character who carries the thesis is Sasha, the middle-class New England girl who marries in and is instantly, permanently cast as the arriviste.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
Ability to flex pricing power The crown jewel of Applied Aerospace’s investment thesis lies in its 87% single-source contract mix.

— Harvey Stober, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026

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