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
Professor Karl Pearson in particular has extended and perfected the mathematical methods of this field and stands to-day as perhaps its most representative exponent.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer
Inevitably, exponential “towers of powers”—a chain of exponents stacked vertically—can metaphorically tip over, hitting their functional limit.
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
The town is also home to other renowned exponents of the art like Unniyarcha, Aromal Chekavar and Thacholi Othenan.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 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
Vocabulary lists containing exponent
The ACT Math Test: Number and Quantity
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Expressions and Equations
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Algebra
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