centripetal
Example Sentences
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A mere arm’s length away from one another, the riders stay steady, thanks to centripetal force and prayers.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024
A: The evidence suggests that there are centripetal forces that keep metropolitan areas from continually expanding outward, and that centripetal force is going to remain.
From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2022
Chung’s slice-of-life writing is nicely observed but gentle to a fault, circling around its themes widely and long enough to lose centripetal force.
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022
But he argues they also need the centripetal force of “cultural patriotism,” to balance the centrifugal forces that this diversity ignites.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2022
Traveling feet-first along the ladder, he soon had to grip it in earnest as the centripetal force of the rotating ship took hold.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
