gradient
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At the same time, the degree of permeability within those fractured regions was influenced by the Earth's geothermal gradient and the composition of the crust.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
The word “Coachella” is placed in free-flowing sprawl across the top, punctuated with a forest green gradient and bright orange stroke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 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
PIH believed in sending resources directly to Cange, down “the steep gradient of inequality.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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The coffers have their own rhythm; indirect lighting turns the hollows into shadow gradients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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
The new model suggests that active membrane fluctuations could push ions in the opposite direction, working against those gradients.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025
Generally colliery tips were located on steep hillsides, whereas Ffos-y-Fran's overburden mounds sit "on ground with gentle gradients", with differences too in terms of how they were constructed and their drainage systems, they said.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
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
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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