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exponent

[ik-spoh-nuhnt, ek-spoh-nuhnt] / ɪkˈspoʊ nənt, ˈɛk spoʊ nənt /




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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

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

Grayson: Scotland have probably got the most intricate attacking/kicking game in the world and the best exponent of it.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2023

Evidences like this of a change in popular opinion are not needed to confirm Whitman's faith in his own future, nor in that of the great humanity of which he is the prophet and exponent.

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

“You’re taking another two exponents of risk as you’re moving towards fusion away from fission.”

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

Stories multiply like toadstools in forest loam in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, America’s most devout skeptic of the narrative urge, yet also one of its greatest exponents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

But who are the greatest exponents of the long throw?

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

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

He did a nice job today reviewing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide exponents.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty




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