gradient
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Manchester City's new home kit uses a sky blue gradient, with a print inside the neck, which reads, "Not Your Typical City".
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
A velocity gradient occurs when different parts of a system move at different speeds.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
He testified: “It’s tough to go against the gradient with command and be the only one.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 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
He waited for the indigo gradient of the sky as the sun went down, until the first star of the evening.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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 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
In English, they would be free of the sharply defined gradients of Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing gradient
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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