polarity

Example Sentences

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Typically, reversing a magnet's polarity requires heating it above that critical temperature.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 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

"Cancer, however, wants to expand rapidly, escape the tissue of origin and invade other tissues so it eschews the structure of cell polarity in order to grow in an uncontrolled way."

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

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