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For example, a cyclist who suddenly hits a curb experiences a sharp velocity gradient when the bike stops but the rider's momentum continues forward.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

The word “Coachella” is placed in free-flowing sprawl across the top, punctuated with a forest green gradient and bright orange stroke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 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

Saturday's potentially pivotal stage finishes at the summit of Jebel Hafeet after a 10.6 km climb with an average gradient of 6.9 per cent.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

The proteins create a gradient within the egg.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

The new model suggests that active membrane fluctuations could push ions in the opposite direction, working against those gradients.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025

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