external
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Once enough phonons were aligned, their collective motion transferred to electrons, even after the external magnetic field was removed.
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026
Research from the University of Cambridge, external in 2022 found that plants in the UK are now flowering a month earlier.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
The credit-rating firm S&P Global said in a March 6 report that the U.A.E’s “substantial fiscal, economic, external, and policy flexibility will act as an effective buffer” against the war’s economic effects.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
“Any entity capable of causing the universe,” says narrator Stephen Meyer, a philosopher of science, “must be external to, or separate from, the universe itself. It must . . . transcend time and space.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
The first external beam was produced on March 26, 1936, by “snouting”—so named because of the pig’s-snout shape of the portal carrying ions out of the vacuum tank.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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