exponent
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A few years later and a few hundred miles down the Eastern Seaboard, Bruce Springsteen, perhaps the greatest living exponent of the American song of the open road, issued the tragic and affecting “Atlantic City.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
“We take the exponent from the top minus the exponent from the bottom, right?” explained Flores, who majored in math at Cal State L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
Its message was spread across the world in the 1970s by Marley — the faith’s most famous exponent.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
Despite the system's complexity, the team found that snowflake accelerations follow an exponential frequency distribution with an exponent of three halves.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023
Still it is interesting to find so vigorous and clear an exponent of the system flourishing in a period given over to the beliefs that Lucian parodied and Apuleius accepted.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
Applying exponents helps in grappling with inflationary numbers, whether monetary or cosmic, and is more practical than talking in exotic “-illions,” such as milli-millillion and killillion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
"Arsenal are the arch exponents at set-pieces. They are top of the Premier League, chasing the Champions League and are statistically the best team in the country."
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
“You’re taking another two exponents of risk as you’re moving towards fusion away from fission.”
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
On a recent Friday, second-year instructor Nathalie Robles was teaching Compton High 11th-graders about exponents in her integrated math class — and had multiple strategies to make sure students were keeping up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
And Vespucci had sailed 50 degrees south of the equator: this was not just the equatorial antipodes that some exponents of the two-spheres theory had envisaged.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The ACT Math Test: Number and Quantity
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Expressions and Equations
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Algebra
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