How to Use criticality in a Sentence
criticality
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But how does this change the nature of criticality in the brain and can this be observed?
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2022
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But what was pushing grids to the point of criticality?
—Peter Fairley, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2016
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In today’s reactors, the only way to achieve criticality is to have a healthy abundance of U-235 atoms in the fuel.
—Michael Koziol, IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2018
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True criticality only occurs in systems with many more units than are found in a swarm.
—Brandon Keim, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
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With so much at stake, the 2022 US midterms are highlighting the criticality of one core US voting protection: the secret ballot.
—WIRED, 7 Nov. 2022
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These tools should be able to identify an issue, compare it against known databases of bugs, identify its exposure to the production code and give it a risk score based on criticality.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
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The specter of self-sustaining fission, or criticality, in the nuclear ruins has long haunted Chernobyl.
—Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 5 May 2021
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The complexity and criticality of health care’s issues far outweigh those of other applications.
—Carol McCall, STAT, 12 Aug. 2021
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More recently, some work has shown that what was previously considered a signature of criticality might also be the result of random processes.
—John M. Beggs, Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2023
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Ideas about criticality have also begun to spread beyond neuroscience.
—John M. Beggs, Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2023
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Perhaps operating at near criticality is conducive to midge romance?
—Brandon Keim, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
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Determine all the technology needs your organization is seeking to fill with a new CRM implementation, then list them out in terms of importance and criticality to organizational function.
—Tal Frankfurt, Forbes, 15 June 2022
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Additionally, Qualys TruRisk quantifies security risk by workload criticality and vulnerability detections and correlates it with ransomware, malware and exploitation threat intelligence to prioritize, trace and reduce risk.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
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