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sparsity

[spahr-si-tee] / ˈspɑr sɪ ti /




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Mr. Jones heightens the sense of unease with a style that favors sparsity and acoustic alertness.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

From early years of rock sparsity - pulling apart the remnants of Joy Division's post-punk gloom and David Bowie's Low era - they bloomed into late-80s indie-pop heavyweights - defined by Smith's melancholy.

From BBC Nov. 1, 2024

Existing approaches often limit the locations of nonzero values by enforcing a sparsity pattern to simplify the search, but this limits the variety of sparse tensors that can be processed efficiently.

From Science Daily Oct. 31, 2023

That philosophical reticence may make these paintings even more of a welcome disruption than their visual sparsity.

From New York Times Jun. 22, 2022

Yet in spite of the sparsity of settlement the native runner manages to find you, even after days of traveling, without compass or directions to aid him.

From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. McCutcheon




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