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10 total sentences available.
Scientists have sought these answers for more than 60 years, but the investigation requires sending a probe right through the unrelenting heat of the corona. Today, this is finally possible with cutting-edge thermal engineering advances that can protect the mission on its daring journey.
Source: tatoeba (7058415)
In the territories the Daesh terrorists controlled, they used cutting-edge violence in order to rebuild a new society from the ground up.
Source: tatoeba (8135154)
Using cutting-edge machines that can detect the chemical composition in grains of soil as small as a speck of dust, the two Goddard labs will study how the building blocks of life evolved in our solar system and how the Moon’s surface chemistry was shaped over eons by radiation from space and from the Sun.
Source: tatoeba (8410032)
The laptop provides cutting-edge technology at an affordable price.
Source: tatoeba (10556777)
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Closest matches include advanced, advanced us history course, breakthrough concept, digital revolution, electric vibe.
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