binary

Example Sentences

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"It's not a binary on/off effect; it can be a scaled response, like a dimmer, depending on the light you shine on it," she said.

From Science Daily

The illusion awakens him to a new means of looking at “nature and culture, the given and the constructed,” wherein these supposed binaries collapse together and exist simultaneously.

From The Wall Street Journal

Burden wrote this long after the fact, when the binary nature of her marriage became self-evident.

From Los Angeles Times

This discovery also confirms a long-predicted type of binary system that had never been clearly identified.

From Science Daily

"This bill doesn't just create problems... it throws our lives out of order completely," said PhD scholar Vaibhav Das, who identifies as non‑binary.

From Barron's