widely used
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The team's solution replaces the traditional event horizon with what physicists call a "dynamical horizon," a concept that is already widely used in computer simulations of black holes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Today, gallium is widely used in semiconductors, telecommunications equipment, LEDs, laser diodes, solar panels, high performance computing, the aerospace and defense industries, and as a safer alternative to mercury in thermometers.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
It will produce liquid ammonia—a chemical widely used in fertilizer—from hydrogen and nitrogen gases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Metal cabinets are also widely used on railway lines, to house signalling equipment.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
He’d also written one of the most famous clinical gynecology textbooks, which is still widely used sixty years and ten editions after he first wrote it.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
