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binary

[bahy-nuh-ree, -ner-ee] / ˈbaɪ nə ri, -nɛr i /


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If humanity doesn’t exist on a binary, perhaps the emphasis shouldn’t always be on trying to see eye to eye; otherwise, no one can take a clear look at what’s happening in the periphery.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

Two men becomes a binary competition with the assumption that one will win.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

All you could do was bet on a binary outcome: whether the next trade in a given stock would be up or down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

"Ananya's work demonstrates that each of these peculiarities can be explained by the same underlying phenomenon: the tidal destruction of a binary system and the capture of one of the stars," Coughlin says.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Before class, I’d have to recopy it into Arabic numbers, but one day I didn’t have time, so I turned in the assignment in its binary version.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

One of the stellar binaries, known as G203-47, is now officially the ninth closest white dwarf to the Sun.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

"The prospect of identifying inspiraling supermassive black hole binaries years before future space-based gravitational wave detectors come online is extremely exciting," concludes Professor Kocsis.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

Future space-based gravitational wave observatories should be able to detect these binaries directly.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

The museum has physically invalidated the binaries of center and periphery, major and minor arts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

Both components are spectroscopic binaries, and the system is a most interesting one.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore




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