gradient
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Make sure the stairs are “future-proofed” for your 73- and 83-year-old selves in terms of safety, materials, guardrails and gradient, especially considering that you are planning to stay in this house for the foreseeable future.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
As the color grew out, McCoy trimmed the shape so the dark roots faded into the blond tips, creating a gradient effect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
The researchers achieved this by carefully controlling the pH gradient so the chemical changes were large enough to reshape the cornea without causing excessive damage.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
“My guess is where that leads is just a lower gradient of returns from here, i.e., as earnings growth slows, the extent to which the market appreciates slows, but on net still positive,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
PIH believed in sending resources directly to Cange, down “the steep gradient of inequality.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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The researchers carried out what may be the most detailed simulation yet of magnetic fields interacting with unstable velocity gradients.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
Weak offshore gradients that bring warm desert air to the coast add to the heat, said Robbie Monroe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
In options trading, there are gradients of success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
And "part of the novelty of this work is functional gradients exist everywhere in biology," the researcher said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
In English, they would be free of the sharply defined gradients of Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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