canonical
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They added that a "canonical process" was under way to decide what action to take next and confirmed that Baillie had not exercised public ministry since he was arrested in November 2024.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Ideas such as string theory, loop quantum gravity, canonical quantum gravity, and asymptotically safe gravity all attempt to bridge the gap.
From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026
The construction board, a private canonical foundation, had intended to complete work on the Sagrada Familia, considered the world's most famous unfinished building, this year.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
But this year in particular, it was often the new seams of meaning and feeling actors found in canonical texts, or the emotional truth they brought to new writing, that most impressed me.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
A “grand canonical ensemble” is, oddly enough, the proper term for a quantitative model system in thermodynamics, borrowed from music by way of mathematics.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing canonical
The Importance of Being Earnest
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GRE Verbal Reasoning, List 8
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Out of Salem
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