high-performance
Americanadjective
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Miatas feature heavily in this crowd, but there are also high-performance rides, like a Porsche 911, a first-generation Audi R8 and an Audi RS 3.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
A new generation of cost-efficient, high-performance Chinese AI is putting pressure on Silicon Valley's leading labs to lower prices to grab market share as they try and find ways to turn a profit.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Quantum materials could reshape fields as varied as high-performance computing, secure communication, sensitive detection, and energy production.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Residents have raised concerns about noise, electricity demand and the large amounts of water sometimes used to cool the high-performance chips that generate vast amounts of heat.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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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