ambient
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The dream of ambient computing is to be able to walk around and utter any request into thin air, like the high-powered voice computer system in “Her.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
That ethereal, ambient thing at the end kills me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Public and communal resources can be easy to undervalue precisely because so much of their worth is ambient.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
"In the end, we optimized the conditions to a practical level and, under ambient temperatures, achieved PEG-modified cleaving efficiency above 91% at 50°C within just one to two hours," stated Inagaki, the study's first author.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
One image of Phil fades into another—the ambient light in the shots shifts and casts shadows across his brow, his cheekbones, his lips.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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