gradient
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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
"We were able to create nice gradient: the concentration of embedded ytterbium ions gets denser as you go through each layer, with the core being the most dense," says Wu.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 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 proteins create a gradient within the egg.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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"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
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
And "part of the novelty of this work is functional gradients exist everywhere in biology," the researcher said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 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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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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