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 are the quantum mechanical particles that light consists of.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

Photons passing within it spiral toward the event horizon; those outside it are merely deflected.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 4, 2023

Photons would be mirrored by photinos; quarks would be mirrored by squarks.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2022

Photons of infrared radiation are responsible for much of the warmth we feel when holding our hands before a fire.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019