discrete
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Instead, we look at a few of the more discrete developments in the past week.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026
Rather, he borrows discrete aspects of their structures or narratives and transforms them into something entirely distinct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
One professional coach’s website describes it, in so many words, as making discrete adjustments to a business that, over time, lead to its significant transformation.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
In the semi-classical limit, the atom inside the cavity continues to be treated as a quantum system with discrete energy levels.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Even the development of an organism—the most obviously inherited chain of information—seemed to progress through smooth, continuous stages, and not in discrete bursts.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing discrete
Grade 12, List 1
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