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spectrum

[spek-truhm] / ˈspɛk trəm /
NOUN
color spectrum
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America’s national pastime, played by generations of children up and down the economic spectrum, is increasingly a sport for rich kids.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

At the other end of the spectrum, a host of unaccredited alternatives are racing to fill the perceived gap in practical instruction, the latest being the Horowitz Andreessen Academy in San Francisco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"We then tuned to the tricritical point and measured the lowest levels of its distinct spectrum, which came out in the different ratios theory predicts."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

That Navarrette turned out to be a precocious movie watcher might be the result of her exposure to a wide spectrum of films.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

New York was another spectrum unto itself, and the great diversity I’d seen at Howard, solely among black people, now spread across a metropolis.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Scientists expect to release images and spectra from some of Juice's instruments in the coming weeks, once the data have reached Earth and instrument teams have had time to evaluate them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Their UV spectra contain fingerprints of chemical elements in their atmospheres while also revealing details about the stellar winds carrying material away from their surfaces.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Brown has been modeling the climates and spectra of self-luminous giant planets.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

The spectra of Larissa, Galatea, and Neptune's rings contained signs of magnesium-rich phyllosilicates.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

In the years following his proof of the existence of other galaxies, Hubble spent his time cataloging their distances and observing their spectra.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Among the contenders in this year’s original song race are two on opposite ends of multiple spectrums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024

In the last 15 years or so, psychiatry has embraced what’s called a dimensional approach, based on the idea of scales and spectrums of trait and symptom severity.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 24, 2023

“These surveys tend to include much broader spectrums of trans individuals, and we cannot be as certain that our results are as problematic in the broader group,” Dr. Frisch said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

“I’m questioning whether it is. … The Pride flag represents making space for all humans on all the spectrums, and this is where we’re going as a human species,” Cain said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

While the other mothers forced my sisters to trace their cursive letters, I worked on shades and spectrums.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton




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