sparsity

Example Sentences

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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

Researchers can also leverage sparsity to more efficiently move and process data on a computer chip.

From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2023

Other military experts agreed that Ukraine’s record of shooting down missiles has been good, especially given the age and sparsity of Ukraine’s equipment.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

It is not difficult to foresee the result of so anomalous a state of things, though in this Province, owing to sparsity of population and other local causes, the result did not immediately become apparent.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles