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gradient

[grey-dee-uhnt] / ˈgreɪ di ənt /


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When the researchers repeated the simulations without maintaining the large-scale velocity gradient, the organized magnetic structures never formed.

From Science Daily May 26, 2026

"We picked particular areas to enable us to see a gradient of high nutrients to low nutrients," said Dr Richard Unsworth from Swansea University, adding that the team's findings were "stark".

From BBC May 2, 2026

He testified: “It’s tough to go against the gradient with command and be the only one.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2026

“Time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture,” one co-founder wrote to announce his last day.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 13, 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

"I hope our findings will inspire a new integration of rates of morphological change into other big areas of interest, things like the very well-known latitudinal gradients in biodiversity."

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 2026

The coffers have their own rhythm; indirect lighting turns the hollows into shadow gradients.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 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

And "part of the novelty of this work is functional gradients exist everywhere in biology," the researcher said.

From Barron's Feb. 12, 2026

He droned on and on about dendrites and voltage gradients, but in my dream I couldn’t stop wondering how much of what I remembered about Jesse was truth and how much was fiction.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson




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