How to Use entropy in a Sentence

entropy

noun

• With Young and Browne, there’s a sense of entropy in those songs.
  — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 15 Apr. 2024
• The degree to which a system has no pattern is known as entropy.
  — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 20 Aug. 2019
• And it’s based off of the level lamp entropy from Cloudflare.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2021
• Coffee gets cold for a reason, and that reason is called entropy.
  — Justin Peters, Slate Magazine, 20 Dec. 2017
• These changes in power are producing a world marked by entropy.
  — Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
• What’s the best way to understand entropy in this black hole context?
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2021
• That, in terms of entropy at least, is what the history of our Universe looks like.
  — Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026
• Some meetings go off without a hitch, but that doesn't mean that entropy won't ensue later.
  — Ross Levin, Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
• But if high-entropy systems could be sucked into nothingness by black holes, that would not be the case.
  — The Economist, 14 Mar. 2018
• And all sorts of things can have entropies associated with them.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
• The most likely arrangement of atoms has the highest entropy.
  — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2022
• Contrast this with the entropy of a more traditional system—say, a gas in a box.
  — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
• Overall, this reduces the entropy enough to brute-force guess 16-bit search spaces.
  — Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2025
• This hints at the importance of entropy, which in rough terms is a measure of disorder.
  — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• Its pace could speed up or slow down depending on how entropy shifted within the system.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026
• And the answer is exponentially large in the entropy of the black hole.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
• On his memorial stone is inscribed his equation, which describes the entropy of a black hole.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2018
• This entropy, in turn, is proportional to the bit length of the modulus.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2024
• These virtues are in constant battle against the entropy of our disordered nature.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• The higher the entropy of a word, the higher the information gain.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
• At that temperature, the resulting glass would have an entropy as low as that of a crystal.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2020
• But most of that is wasted by the warm parts radiating their heat to the cold parts, creating entropy.
  — Emy Rodriguez Flores, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2023
• But the entropy of the actual universe remained an open question.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
• And that’s the puzzle about thermodynamics and entropy and so on.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2017
• The entropy of the universe means that it gets increasingly disordered over long spans of time.
  — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022
• Euphoria is this entropy machine, like somebody threw a bunch of ping-pong balls in a dryer and hit the button.
  — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2024
• In contrast, a case where entropy wins is the combination of milk and coffee, which become well mixed.
  — Trevor Grandpre, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024
• Here's one of my first attempts, lasting less than 7 minutes on easy mode against the forces of binary entropy.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023
• Our own bad habits and the natural entropy of most systems has caused misery and burnout, and attendant self-help books.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
• Alice thinks that Bob does not support 16 bytes of entropy and accepts 1 byte.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2019