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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

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

Grayson: Scotland have probably got the most intricate attacking/kicking game in the world and the best exponent of it.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2023

Hallam's general position in historical literature must not be underrated; he is the English representative of the school which had Guizot for its most brilliant exponent on the Continent.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

“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

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




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