polarity

Example Sentences

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To confirm that the tiny ferromagnet, which measures only a few micrometers across, had truly reversed its polarity, the team shone a second, weaker laser beam onto it.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

Earth's magnetic field periodically flips polarity, and these reversals leave a clear and globally synchronized signature in sediments.

From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2026

"It holds a mirror up to society and talks about the divisiveness in our culture and the fact that there's so much polarity."

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025

Instead, that polarity motif is more thrillingly captured when Eve fends off a flamethrower with a fire hose.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

When she stopped, it was as though some momentous change of polarity had taken place inside her mind, one that had an immediate, pacifying effect on her body.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger