gradient

Example Sentences

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“Time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture,” one co-founder wrote to announce his last day.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Researchers voiced excitement that cat whiskers have a similar kind of material intelligence and stiffness gradient.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

And they might increase the gradient and speed on the treadmill until you feel your heart beating faster and your breath quickening.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 23, 2025

The first thing you notice is the steep gradient of the stand - it is as steep as regulations allow, to keep the fans as close to the pitch as possible.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2025

En route, traveling the gradient of bombykol, he notes the presence of other males, heading in the same direction, all in a good mood, inclined to race for the sheer sport of it.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas