How to Use ultrafast in a Sentence

ultrafast

adjective
  • The latest iPad Pros will work on ultrafast 5G wireless networks that are still being built out.
    Michael Liedtke, ajc, 20 Apr. 2021
  • For the last two years, phone carriers like AT&T and Verizon have boasted about ultrafast speeds.
    New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The result is a camera similar to a commercial ultrafast imaging device but costing less than a tenth of the price.
    IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2023
  • This same idea applies when researchers attempt to image the ultrafast motion of electrons.
    Niranjan Shivaram, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Verizon was first to launch 5G, but its ultrafast connections ride on tricky millimeter waves that don't travel far or pass through leaves and glass.
    Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 2 June 2021
  • The video, says Brooks, doesn't skip even as the virtual machines hosting it are transferred, over an ultrafast fiber-optic network, between servers thousands of miles apart.
    Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2011
  • This would happen multiple times during an initiating laser pulse and lead to a train of ultrafast, attosecond-scale flashes of light from the gas.
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Several ultrafast players had learned the business outside the U.S..
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Countries like China boasted massive dams and ultrafast trains, while the U.S. could barely repair its roads or keep Amtrak running.
    Noah Smith Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 22 Nov. 2020
  • The ultrafast robots are made using a liquid metal alloy called galinstan.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The era of supersonic commercial flights came to an end when the Concorde completed its last trip between New York and London in 2003, but the allure of ultrafast air travel never quite died out.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
  • The iPhone 12 features a new design and also works on the new ultrafast 5G wireless networks gradually rolling out around the world, two factors that could spur many Apple fans to upgrade from their older models.
    Michael Liedtke, ajc, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Moreover, the short, femtosecond x-ray pulses work like a high-speed camera, helping researchers capture ultrafast processes such as the movement of electrons and atoms.
    Bykatie McCormick, science.org, 23 Mar. 2023
  • These ultrafast wingbeats are present in at least four major insect groups, including mosquitos, bees, beetles, and true bugs or hemipterans.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2023
  • As the Perseverance hurtles toward Mars, a camera will snap pictures of the quickly approaching surface and feed them to the ultrafast onboard computer.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2020
  • Apple is expected to roll out as many as four different iPhone 12 models this year, including its first version that will be able to work on the next generation of ultrafast wireless networks known as 5G.
    Michael Liedtke, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2020
  • His research specialty is in ultrafast laser spectroscopy.
    Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • In the past couple of years, as the demand for delivery skyrocketed, ultrafast delivery services with abstract-sounding names—Buyk, Getir, Jokr—came onto the scene.
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 20 June 2022
  • For instance, ultrafast robots might replace invasive methods like a colonoscopy.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • But a group of scientists will receive the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for research that essentially follows the movement of electrons using ultrafast laser pulses, like capturing frames in a video camera.
    Niranjan Shivaram, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Part of the success of the new experiment, according to Juliette Simonet, co-leader of the Hamburg team, comes from bringing together ultracold and ultrafast physics experts.
    Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Wired, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Access to cheap, reliable and ultrafast internet is crucial to most companies.
    Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Other Chinese phone companies, including OnePlus, have taken a stab at making ultrafast charging the standard but still fall short of Redmi’s latest charging times.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
  • This ultrafast gender-neutral response to cuteness activates more than our reward centers.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Indeed, speaking of stuff, Shein, the biggest and fastest of the ultrafast fashion giants, recently valued at $66 billion, reportedly filed to go public, suggesting that no one thinks the consumption model is going away any time soon.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The metaverse won’t reach its full potential -- millions of people accessing and living in the virtual world anywhere, at any time -- without ultrafast, low-latency internet.
    Nate Lanxon, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Accessing the ultrafast world of electron motion may also lead to advances in electronic circuitry, drug design and the materials used for batteries.
    Katrina Miller, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Similar to Shein, the Chinese ultrafast-fashion e-commerce company, Temu boasts competitive prices.
    Raffaele Huang, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The researchers used ultrafast optics, spectroscopy and x-rays to document how boron arsenide's thermal conductivity begins to decrease as heat propagates across the sample and it is subjected to intense pressure.
    Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Various research groups across the world have adopted time-stretch as a technique for the characterization of ultrafast phenomena and for increasing the resolution limits of high-speed ADCs.
    Stephen Ibaraki, Forbes, 12 July 2022

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