high-performance
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A boom in the sales of high-performance cars has created a demand for places to drive them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
A boom in sales of high-performance cars creates demand for places to drive them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
If further developed, the technology could contribute to advances in secure communications, advanced sensing, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and other emerging applications.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
Producing high-quality crystalline silicon and fabricating high-performance semiconductor devices typically requires temperatures approaching 1,000 degrees Celsius.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
Tamara didn’t often fly along when the 586th was given assignments, either because of her leg injury or because she wasn’t familiar with the high-performance Yak-1 fighter aircraft.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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