repulsion

Example Sentences

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Polling data backs up this anecdotal display of repulsion towards racist violence.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

For Tinashe, the incongruity of being the kind of person who has their Zoom camera off a day after they sang about seduction, repulsion and red flags in front of thousands seems the entire point.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

By the donor doping of large W6+, this material can take up more water to increase its proton concentration, as well as reduce the proton trapping through electrostatic repulsion between the dopant and proton.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2024

The repulsion indicates reduced proton trapping by the W6+ dopant, which leads to the high proton conductivity at low and intermediate temperatures.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2024

Their existence had been predicted in 1934 by Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa, who speculated that they carried the force that binds the atomic nucleus together, counteracting the mutual electromagnetic repulsion of its positively charged protons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik