exponent
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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
“We take the exponent from the top minus the exponent from the bottom, right?” explained Flores, who majored in math at Cal State L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
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
Peg Woffington played Lady Randolph, a part which found a later exponent in Mrs Siddons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 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
Toby had put parentheses after exponents when explaining PEMDAS, even though the order was literally parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Vocabulary lists containing exponent
The ACT Math Test: Number and Quantity
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Expressions and Equations
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Algebra
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