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synthesize

[sin-thuh-sahyz] / ˈsΙͺn ΞΈΙ™ΛŒsaΙͺz /


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The value of a university lies in helping students evaluate evidence, recognize weak reasoning, synthesize competing ideas and defend their conclusions under scrutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

"They can target a broad range of pathogens, and due to their potency, scientists have been trying to synthesize a variety for therapeutic uses."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

The new agentic Siri boasts the ability to synthesize data across areas like messages, emails and photos and carry out multistep actions across different apps.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026

Generative AI can synthesize and extrapolate in valuable ways, but it also can produce wrong answers or take on tasks that educators would see as inappropriate or counterproductive — such as writing papers for students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

In fact, if I had to synthesize my own enzymes, if I consciously had to remember and direct all the chemical steps required to get energy out of food, I would probably starve.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The bot, which synthesizes health data, recommended a tailored diet to help McDaniel reduce hair loss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The platform’s AI then synthesizes this information and generates a robust appeal letter that incorporates data from peer-reviewed scientific evidence, legal precedents where insurers have lost in court and relevant policy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025

Published in Nature Cities, the comprehensive review synthesizes evidence from cities worldwide, revealing how human conflict and cultural practices affect wildlife genetics, behavior and survival in urban environments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2025

WeCount synthesizes the data and creates imputations for the clinics that don't send their data.

From Salon ● May 15, 2024

Parks Canada is also taking advantage of another technological development called stereophotogrammetry, which produces pictures in pairs and then synthesizes hundreds of these pairings to produce extraordinarily clear images of whatever object is being studied.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Still, the cumbia villera of her childhood — a heavily synthesized subgenre born in the outskirts of Buenos Aires in the late 1990s — runs through everything she makes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Its a continuation of the precedent they’ve set in terms of lyrical and sonic quality, but simultaneously is far more melancholic and synthesized than their previous work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

They then identified and synthesized many of the chemical messengers found in the ant brain.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

It was first synthesized and tested in the late 1980s in Russia, where it can be used for research purposes.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

The gypsy moth lure was the first insect sex attractant to be synthesized, but probably there will soon be others.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

In a new study published in Nature Electronics, a Harvard led research team unveiled a silicon chip capable of synthesizing 64 different DNA sequences at the same time.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

But Socolow came off as masterful at synthesizing energy challenges and environmental concerns, and Pacala brought deep knowledge of how carbon moves between Earth’s atmosphere, land and oceans.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

Though far from perfect, AI systems already outperform human customer-service agents on many routine tasks, particularly in gathering, synthesizing and consistently delivering information.

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026

Even the pioneers of AI will tell you, Stassun said, in many cases, what AI does very well is rapidly synthesizing, consolidating or repackaging existing information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026

During reproduction, the helices separate, assisted by a special unwinding protein, each synthesizing an identical copy of the other from nucleotide building blocks floating about nearby in the viscous liquid of the cell nucleus.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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