How to Use matrix in a Sentence
matrix
noun- The wires all crossed each other and formed a matrix.
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But does this mean there is [a] glitch in the matrix?
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 22 Dec. 2025
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The delta, of course, is filled with a matrix of rivers, sloughs, cuts and coves.
—Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 May 2021
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In this good-and-evil matrix, Jews are deemed not to fare well.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
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That’s where band matrices come in.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
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The sheet is stretched over one side of the honeycomb matrix like a drum.
—Jordan Golson, Wired News, 30 Apr. 2015
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One piece is the core of the space, in which all the matrices are simple.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2023
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In the nail matrix, specialized cells that make up your nail plate are formed.
—Sherri Gordon, Health, 18 Oct. 2024
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Map yourself against the skills matrix of your dream board and plug holes quickly.
—Marie Holive, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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Picture a classic chess board, which is an eight-by-eight matrix of squares.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2022
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Mycelium fungus cells feed off wood fibers and form a dense matrix, kind of like a sponge.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2022
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This matrix acts like the cement to hold it all together.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 24 Nov. 2025
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As the jurors worked their way through a matrix of charges, juror No.
—Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2019
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Permafrost is a mixture of dirt, sand, or gravel frozen in a matrix of ice.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 18 Jan. 2022
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These days, the idea that our minds are all jacked into a matrix is rather obvious.
—Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2021
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The case can act as a kickstand and features a matrix of holes to help keep the device cool.
—PC Magazine, 22 May 2025
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Yeah, there’s this matrix of qualities that any reporter looks at when a tip comes in.
—Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2022
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Take a four-by-four matrix with three nonzero elements.
—Olivia Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2026
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Cheap drones – deployed in sea and sky – have expanded the threat matrix.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 22 Mar. 2026
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In the center of the bone marrow cavity are dirt and bone matrix.
—Loren Grush, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2011
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That pattern, or fingerprint, is stored in a matrix.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
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Slide your fingers down the page to the appropriate cell in the matrix.
—Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2022
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Some injuries can also affect the nail matrix, which is the tissue at the base of your nail.
—Jessica Cruel, SELF, 19 Jan. 2018
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Palmer is one of several artists who includes the matrix that produced the print.
—Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
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Teaches you to see the matrix, rather than simply exist in the matrix.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
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Teaches you to see the matrix, rather than simply exist in the matrix.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
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But there’s a glitch in the matrix; too often, Black Thought’s voice is buried in the mix.
—Joe Gross, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2022
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Up to 90 percent of a bone’s matrix can be made up of collagen.
—Popular Science, 4 Feb. 2020
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But the fact that R1 is open source means there are ways to get around the censorship matrix.
—Zeyi Yang, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2025
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What that matrix does for dice, the S-matrix does for particles.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
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