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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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