How to Use singularity in a Sentence

singularity

noun
  • People could not understand the singularity of his imagination.
  • If the spin slows down, the whole thing will be rapidly crunched into a singularity.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Popovich, for his part, always has scoffed at such notions of his singularity.
    Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 8 May 2021
  • And this album was just about kind of just embracing my singularity as an artist.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • At a singularity, spacetime seems to bend to a breaking point.
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020
  • But yeah, the singularity is for sure an idea that is relevant to this whole sector of things.
    IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2025
  • Extending the human life span is one of the dreams of the post-singularity world.
    Jules Julien, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
  • But in the media-state singularity, there is not even the pretense of space between the two worlds.
    Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
  • This shows that the Dirac point is a singularity—a place where physics is uncertain.
    Charles D. Brown Ii, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • So is this the end for eternal inflation and the big bang singularity?
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
  • Add more than that, and rather than collapse into a naked singularity, the cloud will disperse.
    Steve Nadis, WIRED, 15 Sep. 2024
  • There is no learning that bridges the before and after of a singularity.
    Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
  • For a black hole, the singularity sits in a precise position in space.
    Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
  • So theorists have long sought a way of avoiding that singularity—and losing time would be one way to do that.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
  • If the curve gets much steeper from one frame to the next, the fluid might be approaching a singularity.
    Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The current moment seems to reify rightness and a singularity of view.
    Liz Appel, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But a singularity need not be stable.
    Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The relative singularity of this study may also be telling in and of itself.
    Jacob Brogan, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017
  • And because such a universe doesn’t have a beginning, there’s no big bang and no singularity.
    James Riordon, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
  • Still, the pull between East and West does sit at the heart of its singularity, a place between two worlds.
    Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2015
  • And less esprit, less a feeling of singularity, of lore and tradition, less pride.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 20 May 2021
  • So the work stuff has more of a collective impact than a singularity of authorship.
    New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Jet setter No one really knows what, if anything, is at the core of a black hole, called the singularity.
    National Geographic, 10 Apr. 2019
  • An idea of singularity, an idea of clarity and perfection and heading for the sky.
    Faith Salie, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The circumference of the circle is the event horizon, and the dot is the singularity.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2019
  • In the traditional view, a star keeps collapsing past the event horizon down to a dot known as a singularity.
    Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
  • Space travel is uncertain, and the singularity is a mirage, so why not stay here, nestled into the cool damp ground.
    Kelly Pendergrast, WIRED, 14 July 2023
  • Thus, if dark matter turned out to be composed of tiny black holes, this would be an indirect proof in favor of the absence of singularities.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The reigning champions have a singularity on their side.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2026
  • And the sisters are great at acknowledging this distinction—the singularity of their lives—for the most part.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2018

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