intrinsic
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Someone with the virginal purity of a political outsider and the intrinsic capability of an insider who’s spent decades cutting deals and keeping the government wheels spinning.
From Los Angeles Times
As an investment, floating-rate cryptocurrencies are largely hope certificates with no intrinsic value.
Only a small number of materials are believed to host intrinsic topological superconductivity.
From Science Daily
“This behavior inexorably causes waste, regulatory action that impairs operation and investment, and reduction of the intrinsic value” of the injection resource, they said.
The discovery may also help refine models of intrinsic galaxy alignments, which can interfere with measurements in upcoming weak lensing surveys.
From Science Daily
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