gravitation
Example Sentences
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In another speech that year, Kuroda described how, like a spacecraft attempting to move away from Earth's gravitation, "tremendous velocity" was needed to end Japan's deflationary equilibrium.
From Reuters
“This can play a very good role in some basic physics research, such as non-Newtonian gravitation and gravitational redshift” research, he said.
From New York Times
The data representing the waltz of a star and black hole would be meaningless if not backed by a theory of gravitation.
From Scientific American
The cluster’s enormous gravitation field acts as a lens, warping and magnifying the light from galaxies behind it that would otherwise be too faint and faraway to see.
From New York Times
So it doesn't surprise me that the gravitation toward a show like "Is it Cake?" is happening at a time when more ominous deceptions lurk in the media landscape.
From Salon
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