research and development
Britishnoun
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As she played a game of telephone with the clinics, Vanessa ran into a complexity inherent to contraceptive research and development, itself a direly underfunded field.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
He brought in a new research and development chief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
As Micron is in a hypergrowth phase, “it’s optimal to reinvest money in the business,” whether that be in production or research and development, said Andrew Rocco, a stock strategist at Zacks Investment Research.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Other self-inflicted wounds he suggests include spending research and development cash on digital operations rather than new products.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
As it happened, not everyone in the nuclear research and development community thought a test moratorium would be a bad thing.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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