well-understood
Britishadjective
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Akamai’s advantage is that it will be serving up CPUs that have smaller power needs than GPUs, “a dynamic that is not well-understood by the market when it comes to running AI workloads.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Some peptides, like insulin or GLP-1, are well-studied and the risks and benefits of lab-created versions well-understood.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Insider misuse of nonpublic information is a well-understood category of misconduct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
"This is a novel idea in planetary science, inspired by a well-understood idea in Earth science," said Austin Green, lead author and postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2026
The difference in experience between the two labs told the tale: to the veteran experimentalists of the Cavendish, contamination was a familiar and well-understood phenomenon, but not so to the brash bombardiers of Berkeley.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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