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gradient

[grey-dee-uhnt] / ˈgreɪ di ənt /


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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

Around 300 National Trust staff and volunteers will be involved, carrying about 17 tonnes of fresh chalk up the steep hillside, which in places has a gradient of roughly one in three.

From BBC May 27, 2026

A velocity gradient occurs when different parts of a system move at different speeds.

From Science Daily May 26, 2026

“Time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture,” one co-founder wrote to announce his last day.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 13, 2026

The proteins create a gradient within the egg.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The team suspected these gradients could play a major role in shaping magnetic fields.

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

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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