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something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind
the thesis that moral decline is the infallible diagnostic of a decadent society
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Recent Examples of diagnostics
Teams installed new diagnostics and cryopumps provided by Europe, alongside additional heating systems.
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Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
To mark Women’s Health Month, Flow Space caught up with the CEOs of several companies that are making waves for filling in key gaps in routine screenings and diagnostics.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 15 May 2026
These communities are also least likely to own wearables, purchase direct-to-consumer diagnostics or log in to their electronic health records consistently.
—Lisa Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Designed to sit inside your body and activate when needed to help fight infections at the source, the strategy could dispense with the need for pills, shots and even diagnostics.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
Galloway's largest clients have daily Slack communication with his team to discuss thumbnails and to run detailed diagnostics of video performance.
—Alex Sherman,zach Vallese, CNBC, 10 May 2026
The Bristol location of IDEX Health & Science engineers and manufactures plastic manifolds and fluidic assemblies for the in-vitro diagnostics bio market.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2026
Carillon Miami Wellness Resort (Miami Beach, Florida) Carillon’s offerings include acupuncture, cryotherapy, integrative therapies, advanced diagnostics and thermal hydrotherapy, with treatments that pull from Western, Eastern and alternative medicine.
—Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
Every stay begins with an in-depth medical consultation, followed by personalized diagnostics and a customized treatment and diet plan.
—Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 6 May 2026
Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
To mark Women’s Health Month, Flow Space caught up with the CEOs of several companies that are making waves for filling in key gaps in routine screenings and diagnostics.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 15 May 2026
These communities are also least likely to own wearables, purchase direct-to-consumer diagnostics or log in to their electronic health records consistently.
—Lisa Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Designed to sit inside your body and activate when needed to help fight infections at the source, the strategy could dispense with the need for pills, shots and even diagnostics.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
Galloway's largest clients have daily Slack communication with his team to discuss thumbnails and to run detailed diagnostics of video performance.
—Alex Sherman,zach Vallese, CNBC, 10 May 2026
The Bristol location of IDEX Health & Science engineers and manufactures plastic manifolds and fluidic assemblies for the in-vitro diagnostics bio market.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2026
Carillon Miami Wellness Resort (Miami Beach, Florida) Carillon’s offerings include acupuncture, cryotherapy, integrative therapies, advanced diagnostics and thermal hydrotherapy, with treatments that pull from Western, Eastern and alternative medicine.
—Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
Every stay begins with an in-depth medical consultation, followed by personalized diagnostics and a customized treatment and diet plan.
—Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 6 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diagnostics
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Jean-Claude Manuguerra, who heads Pasteur's Environment and Infectious Risk unit, said the remaining variation appeared to reflect natural viral variation and did not seem to affect the characteristics of the virus detected among travelers.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 May 2026
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Flock Safety's license plate reader technology captures vehicle information, including license plates and vehicle characteristics such as make, model and color on the property.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2026
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Food and drink The Alexandar Bar is one of the hotel’s stand-out features.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
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Its drafting features combine deterministic drafting with AI to enable complex and accurate drafting at scale.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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More to Explore The researchers found that faces that were rated as more attractive were rated more highly across all positive traits—not just competence, but intelligence, responsibility, and other traits—and were rated lower on all negative traits.—
Ben Ambridge,
JSTOR Daily,
15 May 2026
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Nagatitan belonged to a subgroup of sauropods that possessed bones with lots of internal air sacs and thin walls, traits that lightened their skeletons.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
15 May 2026
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Benefits of Almonds for Heart Health While combining dark chocolate and almonds has a positive impact on heart health, each food provides distinct cardioprotective qualities that contribute to these benefits.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
14 May 2026
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The juries will hate its repetitive qualities, but the public will embrace its deep, profound, abiding grooviness.—
Glen Weldon,
NPR,
14 May 2026
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Both books feature protagonists who are out of their elements but also possess unique attributes that first get them into trouble before becoming their one slim hope to escape.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2026
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That makes a lot of sense for Subaru buyers, who value those attributes.—
Kristin Shaw,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Political discussions on social media are often dominated by competing attributions of more and more insidious motives to people on the other side.—
Mark Schroeder,
The Conversation,
20 Feb. 2026
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This post was corrected on 21 January 2021 to clarify attributions.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
12 Jan. 2021
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