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ether

[ee-ther] / ˈi θər /
ADJECTIVE
empyrean
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Kalshi provided data drawn from trading activity on Crypto.com’s prediction market showing some orders for contracts betting on the prices of ether and bitcoin also fell into regularly-sized tranches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Most of the time it feels like I’m just talking into the ether.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Users go to AI bots for everything from recipes to life and relationship advice, even forming one-sided platonic or romantic relationships with the ones and zeroes that make up this digital ether behind a screen.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

His 13,952 Test runs have not just appeared out of the Yorkshire ether.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

And if they’d just sent him on to Jackson while he was under the ether, he’d never have known the difference.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Their proliferation might not affect the sheer number of bitcoins, ethers and other tokens, but some investors thought their arrival has dented bitcoin’s appeal as a scarce asset.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

The device could be used with simple cartridges that can be swapped out to detect different elements, each using slightly different crown ethers that can bind to a specific ion.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2024

Other EDCs of concern include organophosphate ethers, benzotriazoles, and PBDEs, all of which are used to make plastic products fire- and light-resistant.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2024

The Seattle Fire Department uses Novacool UEF, a nonfluorinated foam that doesn’t contain PFAS, nonylphenol ethoxylates or glycol ethers — all chemicals that can be toxic to people and aquatic life.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

A mixture of α- and β-glucose result, which are then etherified, and if the solution be neutralized before the β-form isomerizes and the solvent removed, a mixture of the α- and β-methyl ethers is obtained.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various




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