polarization
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This revolution is happening on both sides of the aisle—a surprising fact, perhaps, given the polarization of gender roles and the place of women in family and society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
However, the researchers found a way to stabilize polarization within a metallic system and use it to influence electronic behavior.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026
Overcoming political polarization is more difficult than we otherwise have thought.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
Trust in institutions and fellow citizens has declined, and many young people have come of age amid political polarization, technological and economic change, unhinged social media, Covid-era isolation and geopolitical uncertainty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Given Walt’s need to exert control and Chris’s extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
"Spatially variable birefringence, that is, the difference in the propagation of different polarizations of light, acts like a synthetic magnetic field," explains Dr. Piotr Kapuściński of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
“It may create a divide between the transitional government and the public. We are looking for a decent discussion based on the interests of Sudan without any polarizations or accusations.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2020
Such pairs of photons can be prepared together—entangled—so that their polarizations are always found to be in the opposite direction when observed.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2020
When the pulses first leave the interferometer, they have different polarizations.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 27, 2017
Heat, light, electricity, magnetism, are by some regarded as specific fluids; by others, as undulations of one or more specific fluid; and by a third class, as undulations or polarizations of ordinary matter.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing polarization
President Obama's Farewell Address
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Physics - Middle School
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