gradient
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When the researchers repeated the simulations without maintaining the large-scale velocity gradient, the organized magnetic structures never formed.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
"We picked particular areas to enable us to see a gradient of high nutrients to low nutrients," said Dr Richard Unsworth from Swansea University, adding that the team's findings were "stark".
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
Whether rounded for elegance, cat-eye for chicness or with a gradient lens for a dreaminess, sunnies finish a look.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
“Time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture,” one co-founder wrote to announce his last day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
PIH believed in sending resources directly to Cange, down “the steep gradient of inequality.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Oxygen moves through these tracheoles by diffusion, traveling down concentration gradients to reach the flight muscles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
In options trading, there are gradients of success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
And "part of the novelty of this work is functional gradients exist everywhere in biology," the researcher said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
Generally colliery tips were located on steep hillsides, whereas Ffos-y-Fran's overburden mounds sit "on ground with gentle gradients", with differences too in terms of how they were constructed and their drainage systems, they said.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
In English, they would be free of the sharply defined gradients of Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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