How to Use exponent in a Sentence
exponent
noun- She has become one of America's foremost exponents of the romantic style in interior design.
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The exponents of myth seemed to shout from every street corner.
—John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
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The bird’s eyes remained blank, unmoved by the exponent.
—Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
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So, instead of trying to increase the exponent, why not try to change the base?
—Urbasi Sinha, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2020
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Young Thug is the purest exponent of mainstream rap’s melodic rap era.
—Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025
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What’s interesting is the size of the exponent, which is greater than one.
—Jonah Lehrer, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2011
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The difference with modern man is that the exponent for the last two comes from 1 to ∞.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2010
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The groups Sun’s algorithm works for are called p-groups of class 2 and exponent p.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2023
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One major thrust has been to figure out where systems’ scaling exponents come from.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2019
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What is important is that the success that the new exponents have had has splashed and helped us, and that is very good for all of us.
—Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2024
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These solutions are complex numbers, and they are referred to by the number in the exponent.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 May 2021
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This format represents numbers using some of the bits for the exponent, some for the mantissa, and one for the sign.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
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And finally, Self is the exponent that can turbocharge – or stymie – the first two elements.
—Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
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The degree of the equation is the highest exponent the polynomial has, in this case 3.
—Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026
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Perhaps the greatest exponent of this idea was Richard Parry-Jones.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2022
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The most high-profile exponent of the tradition, in England, is Klopp.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
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These artists were exponents of what would later be termed, in the West, an art of institutional critique.
—BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
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These artists were exponents of what would later be termed, in the West, an art of institutional critique.
—New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
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This analysis vindicates Schmitt as the truest exponent of right-wing thinking.
—Jeet Heer, New Republic, 31 May 2017
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The plots rule out CFTs with critical exponents that lie outside the area bounded by the curves.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2017
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He was seen as both the single best exponent of Thatcherism and as a potential successor to the prime minister.
—John O'Sullivan, National Review, 24 Dec. 2020
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Archer, one of the most exciting exponents of fast bowling of the game, has the potential to be one of the best England has ever had.
—James Masters, CNN, 15 July 2019
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Bourne mentions Scott Sumner as the most prominent exponent of this view.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
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There’s no sense in writing off a vast, rewarding, uniquely American art form because of its worst exponents.
—Theodore Kupfer, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
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San Diego, land of warm winters and chill attitude, has become an exponent of Bully Ball.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
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The deformation depends on a single free exponent.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 26 May 2026
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The prime exponents are Brentford, with whom Gronnemark has worked on a consultancy basis.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
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The young girl is reading at a 12th-grade level and mastering math concepts such as fractions, decimals and even exponents.
—Jasmine Viel, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
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Of course, Huang wasn’t talking to just anyone, but one of the chief exponents of the wealth tax, nationwide and in California.
—Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
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Bennett is also a leading exponent of the harp guitar and will be playing the harp guitar and offering CDs of his music for sale.
—Courant Community, 24 Oct. 2017
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