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resonance

[rez-uh-nuhns] / ˈrɛz ə nəns /
NOUN
reverberation
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Mr. Cruise’s last film, the eighth “Mission: Impossible” adventure, about an artificial-intelligence agent called the Entity, was an action blockbuster that had more thematic resonance than this one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The projection, through its extremely high resolution and particular frequency resonance, tricked his cells into new growth.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I also think post-Epstein, post-#MeToo, post sheer volume of terrible behavior that men get away with, it has a different resonance today.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Harbor resonance, in which the shape of a basin reinforces the water's oscillations, helped explain why neighboring ports experienced different effects.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Point 17K states you must make the energetic particle radiation density buffer bypass the aft tactical resonance coil,” Klawde said.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

In a press release, the track was described as "a tender country song detailing broken family ties, that holds wider resonances".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

In Sondheim’s body of work, Okrent searches for the autobiographical resonances that Sondheim himself mostly disdained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

"The most obvious indicator of device quality is the shape of the resonances and we want them to be deep and narrow, like a needle piercing through the signal background," Erikson said.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 24, 2026

Part of the enduring power of Vasari’s rinascita might derive from the mystical resonances within the word.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

What this technique does is eke out as many as possible of the sympathetic resonances, or harmonics, latent in the reverberating strings, thus imitating the natural harmonics found in plucked strings and struck metal bars.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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