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gradient

[gray-dee-uhnt] / ˈgreɪ di ənt /


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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

“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

Hussle even selected the cover art: a gradient blue photo of the two rappers chilling with friends at the Hollywood Roosevelt, the hotel they frequented during the recording of the album.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The first involved adding a constantly renewed velocity gradient into the simulations.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

She knew exactly where the gradient shifted to put it into neutral.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

"I hope our findings will inspire a new integration of rates of morphological change into other big areas of interest, things like the very well-known latitudinal gradients in biodiversity."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

A weaker AMOC, he argues, could sharpen the temperature contrast between northern and southern Europe - one of the gradients that helps drive storms and other extremes.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The coffers have their own rhythm; indirect lighting turns the hollows into shadow gradients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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

He droned on and on about dendrites and voltage gradients, but in my dream I couldn’t stop wondering how much of what I remembered about Jesse was truth and how much was fiction.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson


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