symmetry
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With elegant symmetry and a cool, genteel prose style, Ms. Li tracks these parallel stories, exploring the duo’s worldly educations and the ruthless sacrifices to love and friendship they make in pursuit of their ambitions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Their tropical light and decorative symmetry hold opposites, before and after the Fall, in a kind of suspended equilibrium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
It asks very little of you beyond something delicious to pile in the middle and the confidence to fold the edges inward without worrying too much about symmetry.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Alongside the experiments, Shubhayu Chatterjee, an assistant professor of physics, used theoretical modeling to investigate why the effect appears and how the symmetry of the combined materials makes it possible.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
“It must be the neoclassical symmetry of his eyebrows,” she murmured, and pretended to sketch those very eyebrows in the margin of her book with a fingertip.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
This behavior arises from the topology of their electronic bands, which describes broad features of the quantum structure of electronic states that are protected by crystal symmetries.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
A closer look reveals ingenious contrasts, apparent symmetries dissolving into distinctive details.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
As its winking title suggests, director Trương Minh Quý’s “Việt and Nam” is constructed out of neat symmetries and thorny juxtapositions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
Mathematical symmetries within the standard model suggest the weak and electromagnetic forces are different aspects of a single “electroweak” force.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2024
What does this idea—say, the knotting of braids—have in common with that one in some other seemingly disparate area—say, the symmetries of some geometric figure?
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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