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
It is clear that exceptional levels of golfing magic continue to course through the veins of the game's supreme exponent.
From BBC ● Dec. 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
A most valuable exponent of the County Y.M.C.A. work.
From Farm Boys and Girls by William Arch McKeever
“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
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
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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The ACT Math Test: Number and Quantity
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