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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

It is clear that exceptional levels of golfing magic continue to course through the veins of the game's supreme exponent.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024

Gould was then a world-famous exponent of the music of J.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

By these works he became a recognized exponent of orthodox Hegelianism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

Inevitably, exponential “towers of powers”—a chain of exponents stacked vertically—can metaphorically tip over, hitting their functional limit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

On a recent Friday, second-year instructor Nathalie Robles was teaching Compton High 11th-graders about exponents in her integrated math class — and had multiple strategies to make sure students were keeping up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

One of its more vocal exponents is Menno Oosterhoff.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2025

And Vespucci had sailed 50 degrees south of the equator: this was not just the equatorial antipodes that some exponents of the two-spheres theory had envisaged.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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