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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

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

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

And he was far from being an exponent to stern British morality.

From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune

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

On a recent Friday, second-year instructor Nathalie Robles was teaching Compton High 11th-graders about exponents in her integrated math class — and had multiple strategies to make sure students were keeping up.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2025

One of its more vocal exponents is Menno Oosterhoff.

From Salon Jan. 16, 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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