How to Use dimer in a Sentence

dimer

noun
  • As these dimers break and reform, the oxygen ions can move easily.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Many partner up as dimers or join even larger complexes.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • These scoring systems and blood tests such as a D-dimer can help rule out clots in low-risk patients.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Computer simulations showed that these extra ions form pairs of atoms called (Nb/Mo)₂O₉ dimers inside the crystal.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2025
  • With Kittle on ice, Purdy can turn to electric gadget Jauan Jennings (what a dimer) or the physical Demarcus Robinson (111 yards and a TD in the wild-card round).
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Spanish center Aday Mara, standing at 7-foot-3, left UCLA to pair with Lendeborg in the paint, and dimer Elliot Cadeau comes in from UNC.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Those chemicals include perfluorononanoate (PFNA), perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS) and hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid (HFPO-DA), the last one often referred to as a GenX chemical.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 18 May 2026

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