gradient

Around 300 National Trust staff and volunteers will be involved, carrying about 17 tonnes of fresh chalk up the steep hillside, which in places has a gradient of roughly one in three.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

A gradient of retinoic acid in the nose appears to guide neurons, helping each one activate the correct smell receptor depending on its position.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 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

The proteins create a gradient within the egg.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

"It looks like there's a connection between latitudinal gradients and rates of morphological evolution that has been underappreciated," Weeks said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 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

He droned on and on about dendrites and voltage gradients, but in my dream I couldn’t stop wondering how much of what I remembered about Jesse was truth and how much was fiction.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson