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America’s national pastime, played by generations of children up and down the economic spectrum, is increasingly a sport for rich kids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The laser creates a small burst of plasma, and the spectrum of that plasma reveals the chemical makeup of the rock.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
That Navarrette turned out to be a precocious movie watcher might be the result of her exposure to a wide spectrum of films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
"Essentially, all of this happens because there is a physical relation between the size of a droplet and the size of ice crystals in the clouds and the frequency spectrum," she pointed out.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
One puzzle that had been around for a long time had to do with spectrum readings of the wavelengths of hydrogen.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Scientists expect to release images and spectra from some of Juice's instruments in the coming weeks, once the data have reached Earth and instrument teams have had time to evaluate them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
Their UV spectra contain fingerprints of chemical elements in their atmospheres while also revealing details about the stellar winds carrying material away from their surfaces.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
This broad frequency range allowed researchers to examine how the radio spectra of the galaxies change as particles inside their lobes grow older.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
For the first time, DR20 includes SDSS-V stellar and extra-galactic optical spectra obtained in the Southern Hemisphere.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Different stars have different spectra, but the relative brightness of the different colors is always exactly what one would expect to find in the light emitted by an object that is glowing red hot.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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“These surveys tend to include much broader spectrums of trans individuals, and we cannot be as certain that our results are as problematic in the broader group,” Dr. Frisch said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
“I’m questioning whether it is. … The Pride flag represents making space for all humans on all the spectrums, and this is where we’re going as a human species,” Cain said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
Thermal emission spectrums of the planet’s daylight side will be compared to known rocks like basalt and granite to see if they can deduce a surface composition.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 3, 2022
I’m a world traveler and appreciate the differences in culture across all spectrums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
We're just different, like we exist on different spectrums.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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