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state-of-the-art

the highest level of development at a particular time (especially the present time)

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Six example sentences with state-of-the-art, each labelled with its topic.

  • The hospital's new scanner is state-of-the-art, resolving details the older machine simply blurred into a smudge.

    Technology

  • The studio built a state-of-the-art sound stage in 1932, and rival lots copied its rigging within a year.

    Movies

  • What looked state-of-the-art in 1998 now runs in a browser tab, and players call the graphics charmingly crude.

    Gaming

  • The concert hall's state-of-the-art acoustic panels can be tuned in minutes for a string quartet or a rock band.

    Architecture

  • The studio installed a state-of-the-art mixing desk in 1975, and bands crossed the Atlantic just to record on it.

    Music

  • The lab's state-of-the-art microscope resolves single atoms, though the image still takes hours to assemble.

    Science

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