How to Use synthesis in a Sentence

synthesis

noun
  • The bass guitar is kind of a synthesis of rhythm and melody.
    Jacob Sweet, sacbee.com, 22 June 2017
  • In fact, this five room B&B is a perfect synthesis of the now and the then.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 30 May 2018
  • The thesis of love always fights the antithesis of hate, but there is never a synthesis that joins the two.
    Carlos Valladares, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2018
  • To replicate, viruses need to suppress the genes of the host cell and instead favor synthesis of their own.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Synthesis is due out this fall, along with a tour that will include a full orchestra.
    Colin Stutz, Billboard, 10 May 2017
  • That takes time, as does the education of two big-minute rookies and the synthesis of what is a young team, through and through.
    Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2017
  • Sometimes the synthesis is a long time coming—as has been the case with race in America.
    Lance Morrow, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Still, his work can start to guide chemists’ further synthesis efforts.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2018
  • In the end, the book’s merits lie not in the depth of its analysis but in its breadth of synthesis and quotable lucidity.
    Matthew Hutson, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Workforces that skip the synthesis and processing steps may do so at their peril.
    Erin Schumaker, ABC News, 5 July 2021
  • For me, the synthesis of these worlds into my identity was seamless.
    Sharad Devarajan, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
  • The more protein your body stores—in a process called protein synthesis—the larger your muscles grow.
    Jake Boly, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The coalition agreement is a synthesis of the two men’s political projects.
    The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Not to mention, in its current nascent state, speech synthesis could open a big ethical can of worms.
    Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2022
  • At the time, DNA synthesis was a slow and difficult process.
    New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The proteins whose synthesis is induced by the vaccine, on the other hand, have been produced by yourself.
    Enrique Dans, Forbes, 16 May 2021
  • These are used by every cell in the body, improving protein synthesis.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Among those genes are ones involved in translation, the synthesis of proteins — a finding that came as a shock.
    Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The researchers found that a number of genes involved in steroid synthesis were affected by ibuprofen.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Even a brief summary of the ruling is hard to provide; the court’s own synthesis of its conclusions is five pages long.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2021
  • When did our species acquire the ability of prefrontal synthesis?
    Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Church’s team used synthesis in follow-up work to recode seven codons in the E. coli genome.
    Elie Dolgin, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • Both of these nutrients are vital for dopamine synthesis.
    Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • But no one delivered the synthesis that could have tied together all these disparate threads.
    Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2017
  • There are no references, there is no synthesis, there is no surprise.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Among money-courses, the best synthesis to date is found at Reforge.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The notion of a perfect movie is absurd, but some movies attain an ideal synthesis of the director’s body of work.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 June 2023
  • Magnesium is very involved in protein synthesis and the hair growth cycle.
    Valerie Agyeman, Good Housekeeping, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Cow's milk is also a good source of leucine, an amino acid needed to trigger muscle protein synthesis.
    Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Fried chicken is one of the world’s great culinary syntheses, found in cultures and kitchens in every patch of the planet: bird, flour, fat.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2019

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