gradient
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Around 300 National Trust staff and volunteers will be involved, carrying about 17 tonnes of fresh chalk up the steep hillside, which in places has a gradient of roughly one in three.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
A gradient of retinoic acid in the nose appears to guide neurons, helping each one activate the correct smell receptor depending on its position.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 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
He waited for the indigo gradient of the sky as the sun went down, until the first star of the evening.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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
Normally, ions flow along electrochemical gradients, meaning they move from areas of high concentration to low concentration.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025
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
Vocabulary lists containing gradient
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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