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types

  • plural
    of type.
    type
    noun
    a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category.
  • present tense form
    of type (3rd person singular).
    type
    noun
    a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category.

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Yang He, a former Ph.D. student at Shandong University who developed the analysis framework and now studies oxygen collisions at the LHC, described how the team used different collision types to identify energy loss.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

More than three-quarters of those claims described specific types of buildings at named installations, compared with less than half earlier in the war—and claims of strikes targeting housing doubled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

In a standard search campaign, a business sets a budget and bids on specific keywords that trigger text ads to appear when a user types them into the search bar.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

"We still have big ambitions.... It may be different types of jobs or jobs in different areas and so forth," Sarin said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

These were entirely different types of earthquakes than what had come before.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone