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gradient

[gray-dee-uhnt] / ˈgreɪ di ənt /


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Make sure the stairs are “future-proofed” for your 73- and 83-year-old selves in terms of safety, materials, guardrails and gradient, especially considering that you are planning to stay in this house for the foreseeable future.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

As the color grew out, McCoy trimmed the shape so the dark roots faded into the blond tips, creating a gradient effect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

“My guess is where that leads is just a lower gradient of returns from here, i.e., as earnings growth slows, the extent to which the market appreciates slows, but on net still positive,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

"So that's really the main key: to have a steady, large-scale gradient in velocity," he emphasizes.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

En route, traveling the gradient of bombykol, he notes the presence of other males, heading in the same direction, all in a good mood, inclined to race for the sheer sport of it.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

The researchers carried out what may be the most detailed simulation yet of magnetic fields interacting with unstable velocity gradients.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 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

In English, they would be free of the sharply defined gradients of Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell


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