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
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
Byron, Lord, Prescott's estimate of, 113; as exponent of romanticism, 122; quoted, 166.
From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck
“You’re taking another two exponents of risk as you’re moving towards fusion away from fission.”
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
Podhoretz and his friend Irving Kristol—also a Brooklyn Jew and a former leftist—were the two foremost exponents of neoconservatism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
And there are plenty more exponents who continue to shun convention and go with longer implements.
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
She was hesitating over a problem involving the manipulation of exponents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
He did a nice job today reviewing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide exponents.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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The ACT Math Test: Number and Quantity
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Expressions and Equations
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Algebra
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