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ambient

[am-bee-uhnt] / ˈæm bi ənt /


ADJECTIVE
encompassing
Synonyms
NOUN
ambience
Synonyms






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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

The tools, called ambient AI scribes, are used by about 40% of GPs in the UK.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

The team located the magma through ambient noise tomography, a technique commonly used by seismologists to examine structures hidden below the surface.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 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




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