How to Use collider in a Sentence
collider
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But the collider had much more to offer.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
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Yet the collider had not been turned on nor do videos of the tunnel show anyone present.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
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Those fears will no doubt again be widespread when a new collider arrives.
—Big Think, 5 Mar. 2026
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Tevatron collider was the most precise to date.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
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In the coming weeks, these groups will be making key steps toward restarting the collider.
—Aylin Woodward and Janet Babin, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2022
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So the next step in the evolution of colliders was known as a linear collider.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
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But how do particle colliders work?
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
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The colliders’ carbon footprints are also on the minds of physicists.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
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Others wanted the United States to help push for the next big collider.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 Oct. 2020
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Twelve years have passed since the last major discovery at a particle collider.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
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Her research helped usher in a new era of large collider experiments.
—Liz Wegerer, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2026
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There are four main proposals for new colliders, and each one comes with its own slew of engineering challenges.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
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In the last couple of years, data handling at the collider has improved with the use of AI.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2026
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However, a muon collider might combine the strengths of hadron and e+e- colliders— and be faster and cheaper to build.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
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For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century.
—New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
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It's estimated that the moon collider will use tens of terawatts of energy.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2021
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The scientific case for a next larger collider is therefore presently slim.
—Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific American, 19 June 2020
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One experiment used a particle collider, and the other used a prepared chip maze.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Dec. 2020
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Scientists say the collider is not capable of creating a black hole, and there is no reason to believe one was produced.
—Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2017
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The two colliders were the same kind of bet placed under the same kind of pressure; what separated them was not the physics but the willingness to see the project through.
—Florencia Canelli, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
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Gas carried by incoming colliders also set off more star formation in the Milky Way.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
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So far, though, the small-is-beautiful approach has been no more successful than the big colliders in coming up with new phenomena.
—The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
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Another walks into the massive interior chamber of a large electron collider and leaps to her death.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2024
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As for the detectors, the injectors, the magnets, the thousands of tonnes of ultracold collider?
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022
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The main body of the collider is a giant ring over five miles in diameter and the entire facility employs thousands of people.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2018
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By the end of the century, the mega-collider would be upgraded to collide protons, as the LHC does now.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2026
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The super-collider had just gotten cancelled and the US economy was in a recession.
—Vineer Bhansali, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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Magnet development has been the downfall of colliders before.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
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In those colliders, physicists bash together the same particles in precisely the same way, trillions upon trillions of times.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2015
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The idea behind a linear collider is to repeat the basic operation of simpler colliders.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
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