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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

Its message was spread across the world in the 1970s by Marley — the faith’s most famous exponent.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

They also found that the gamma-ray flare distribution indicates that blazar neutrino emission may be dominated by flares for the weighting exponent >1.5.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2023

In Wood, England have a dangerous exponent of bouncers - only South African pair Anrich Nortje and Kagiso Rabada have taken more wickets with bumpers since the beginning of 2021.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2023

Paul, once, on the spur of the moment, called Jesus the "Yes" of all the promises of God—a most suggestive name for the vindicator and exponent of God's realities.

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

“You’re taking another two exponents of risk as you’re moving towards fusion away from fission.”

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

Stories multiply like toadstools in forest loam in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, America’s most devout skeptic of the narrative urge, yet also one of its greatest exponents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

One of its more vocal exponents is Menno Oosterhoff.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 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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