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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

Along with Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, he became a leading exponent of the Frankfurt School.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2026

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

Still it is interesting to find so vigorous and clear an exponent of the system flourishing in a period given over to the beliefs that Lucian parodied and Apuleius accepted.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)

Applying exponents helps in grappling with inflationary numbers, whether monetary or cosmic, and is more practical than talking in exotic “-illions,” such as milli-millillion and killillion.

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

The town is also home to other renowned exponents of the art like Unniyarcha, Aromal Chekavar and Thacholi Othenan.

From BBC Apr. 19, 2025

She was hesitating over a problem involving the manipulation of exponents.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 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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