How to Use binary in a Sentence

binary

1 of 2 noun

• But war and peace is never that binary.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
• Nor is this some tired gender binary.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
• And it was made based on the illusion of a moral binary.
  — Chella Man, Time, 17 Jan. 2026
• The end result in both cases is a black hole binary.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Jan. 2026
• Reed is known for designs that don't conform to any sort of gender binary.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2021
• Now, the star is ready to dismiss the boundaries of the gender binary.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2022
• Your binary cannot hold them together.
  — Joyce Kamanitz, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2026
• Race, for many, is a determining brand, simply one side of a rigid binary.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
• But what makes James Webb’s image of this wind binary so amazing?
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Sep. 2022
• Part of the problem is that the enduring mask wars have helped frame mask wearing as a simple binary.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2021
• But this stark binary doesn’t in any way represent the range of options on the table for the planet.
  — Sam Gill, Fortune, 10 June 2022
• Others are more equivocal about the binary-like terms on offer.
  — Angus Finney, Variety, 15 Jan. 2022
• The movie itself operates on that same binary.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2026
• The third star could have its own planets, but again the binary would make any on larger orbits unstable.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 3 June 2026
• But panic is not entirely absent on the other side of the binary.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
• Some stars pulsate, or one star within a stellar pair, called a binary, can be eclipsed by another.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 June 2021
• The new Drive binary comes with flags for '--recover_from_account_backups' and '--recover_from_app_data_path', which tells us a bit about what is going on.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2023
• Humans aren’t confined to a binary.
  — Arianna Huffington, Time, 14 Jan. 2026
• In this sense, the design flaw is that retirement is too rigid of a binary—you’re either working a lot or not at all.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2021
• None of them were able to understand its contents, and only one figured out that the binary was meant to be a bitmap.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2022
• Trade-offs that deserve nuance get flattened into false binaries.
  — Joy Nissen, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
• In humans, the term intersex describes a body that falls outside of the strict male-female binary.
  — Laura Baisas Aug 13, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2025
• After all, the best myths take our normal heroes-and-villains binary and punt it into a million pieces.
  — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
• Genderqueer is the term for people who don't identity with the gender binary (female or male).
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 2 June 2026
• The debate isn’t binary between open-source and proprietary.
  — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
• Musk sought to distill many of the challenges of running a social media platform into a binary.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 9 Nov. 2022
• But White House officials are keen on framing things as a binary -- and more populist -- choice.
  — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
• This all stems from the gender binary, and in this pocket-sized book, Vaid-Menon breaks down why gender isn’t black or white.
  — Brea Baker, ELLE, 18 Aug. 2023
• Getting ideas out of your system to make room for the next potential goldrush doesn’t have to be a slog, or even viewed in a binary of good versus bad.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
• The question arrives already framed as a binary, and the leader is expected to answer it.
  — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026

binary

2 of 2 adjective

• The choice in front of us is binary.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
• But why is this a binary choice?
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2026
• Non-binary blah blah blah blah.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026
• Many don't know this but Chevy is non-binary!
  — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• Many don’t know this but Chevy is non-binary!
  — Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Many don’t know this but Chevy is non-binary!
  — Peter White, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2025
• This is true, too, of trans and non-binary patients.
  — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 8 Jan. 2026
• The title is binary; the work is not.
  — Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair, 25 Mar. 2026
• There’s no one type of non-binary person.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Feb. 2026
• Like, there’s kind of a tree of points, a binary tree of points that sits inside of your set.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• Clark has spoken in the past about how one of her children is non-binary.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2023
• Let’s imagine a binary tree that contains the items in a to-do list.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2026
• Sometimes academia can be very binary.
  — Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026
• Our sound crew was women and non-binary people.
  — Nick Newman, IndieWire, 1 June 2026
• So, the future of work in the age of AI is not binary.
  — Ilya Likhov, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• The binary lots also are still used today.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
• The other thing that gives me hope is that folks are starting to think beyond a binary choice.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 30 Sep. 2022
• The choice to hire or automate isn’t binary.
  — Ian Amit, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• In May 2021, the singer came out as non-binary.
  — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
• Over time, some of them may form binary pairs and eventually merge.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Mar. 2026
• And, more to the point, who needs binary divisions of gender?
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• That happens when one of the two galaxies had a pair of binary black holes at its center.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Dec. 2025
• In contrast, most biotech companies offer a binary bet on one or two drugs.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2025
• But the world, as seen from India, is too complex for such binary options.
  — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
• These countries’ styles of fighting show that conflict is rarely a binary—either war or peace.
  — Bob Seely, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2023
• The same is true with gay brothers, lesbian sisters, non-binary and trans people.
  — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• There’s got to be something deeper than the binary, the binary box.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
• These are things that are not easily reduced to binary choices.
  — Bryce Hoffman, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• Bug, who was in sixth grade at the time, had previously come out as non-binary, but this felt like an even bigger step.
  — Karen Brown, NPR, 17 Apr. 2026
• Event contracts are binary outcome trades.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025