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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

For one, they developed a technique that allows the hardware to efficiently find the nonzero values for a wider variety of sparsity patterns.

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

Some glanced curiously at me, wondering about my noticeable sparsity of hair; I now had sympathetically few hairs left, and my part revealed an inch-wide swath of white skin.

From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann




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