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exponent

[ik-spoh-nuhnt, ek-spoh-nuhnt] / ɪkˈspoʊ nənt, ˈɛk spoʊ nənt /




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A few years later and a few hundred miles down the Eastern Seaboard, Bruce Springsteen, perhaps the greatest living exponent of the American song of the open road, issued the tragic and affecting “Atlantic City.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

Its message was spread across the world in the 1970s by Marley — the faith’s most famous exponent.

From Seattle Times Mar. 13, 2024

Despite the system's complexity, the team found that snowflake accelerations follow an exponential frequency distribution with an exponent of three halves.

From Science Daily Dec. 19, 2023

Sinatra once called him, “for my money the best singer in the business, the best exponent of a song.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2023

He is looked upon, by those who are not acquainted with his antecedents, as the exponent of Catholic views, the representative of Catholic intelligence and education.

From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, July 1865 by

“You’re taking another two exponents of risk as you’re moving towards fusion away from fission.”

From Barron's Jan. 23, 2026

Podhoretz and his friend Irving Kristol—also a Brooklyn Jew and a former leftist—were the two foremost exponents of neoconservatism.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 17, 2025

And there are plenty more exponents who continue to shun convention and go with longer implements.

From BBC May 27, 2025

She was hesitating over a problem involving the manipulation of exponents.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2025

He did a nice job today reviewing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide exponents.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty




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