Example Sentences

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The most extreme test phrases were almost total "nonsense", such as "Goetterdaemmerung's corpus haemorrhaged through cryptographic hash, eschaton pooling in existential void beneath fluorescent hum. Photons whispering prayers" -- which it rated highly.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Photons, which are particles of light, have no electric charge and therefore do not naturally react to those forces.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026

Photons with certain wavelengths will end up with wave troughs overlapping wave crests, effectively canceling themselves out.

From Scientific American • Apr. 29, 2023

Photons emitted by the earliest stars are stretched in their journey by the expansion of the universe, pushing them into infrared wavelengths that Hubble cannot see.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 11, 2022

Photons with enough energy to do this lie in the ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and there are very few ultraviolet photons in the radiation from a cool star.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016