ambient
Example Sentences
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That ethereal, ambient thing at the end kills me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Vigorous movement shifts the hardware, allowing ambient light to disrupt readings, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Public and communal resources can be easy to undervalue precisely because so much of their worth is ambient.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
"In the end, we optimized the conditions to a practical level and, under ambient temperatures, achieved PEG-modified cleaving efficiency above 91% at 50°C within just one to two hours," stated Inagaki, the study's first author.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
A quick check revealed a fist-sized chunk of frozen drool blocking the rubber valve that admitted ambient air into the mask from the atmosphere.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing ambient
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Around and Around: Ambi
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