gradient
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When the researchers repeated the simulations without maintaining the large-scale velocity gradient, the organized magnetic structures never formed.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 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
Saturday's potentially pivotal stage finishes at the summit of Jebel Hafeet after a 10.6 km climb with an average gradient of 6.9 per cent.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
The big air structure at Milano Cortina's Livigno Snow Park has a total length of 225 metres, a peak height of 40 metres and an average gradient of 28%.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
PIH believed in sending resources directly to Cange, down “the steep gradient of inequality.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Oxygen moves through these tracheoles by diffusion, traveling down concentration gradients to reach the flight muscles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 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
And "part of the novelty of this work is functional gradients exist everywhere in biology," the researcher said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 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
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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