sparsity

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Mr. Jones heightens the sense of unease with a style that favors sparsity and acoustic alertness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

The GP-to-patient ratio already trails the national average by 18%, it added, with recruitment hampered by "confusion around funding, poor estates and a sparsity of applications".

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2023

Existing approaches often limit the locations of nonzero values by enforcing a sparsity pattern to simplify the search, but this limits the variety of sparse tensors that can be processed efficiently.

From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2023

Military experts say the Ukrainians’ rate of shooting down missiles is good, especially given the age and sparsity of Ukraine’s equipment.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022

There are no high hills, little even of undulation, and, what is yet more fatal, a sad sparsity of timber.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward