How to Use vector in a Sentence
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As its name implies, graphics here are all made up of vectors.
—Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024
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But that doesn't mean crews at vector control are letting their guard down.
—Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
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Aphids also can be vectors, or transfer, pathogens to some plants.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 May 2026
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Rats and their urine are the primary vectors of the disease.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 15 Jan. 2026
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Those that do are known as vectors – organisms that can carry and spread pathogens.
—Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 24 May 2026
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An example of this is the pair of blue vectors in the figure below.
—Madison Goldberg, WIRED, 11 Feb. 2024
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That vector served as an address for calling up nearby words and concepts.
—James Somers, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
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In the modern world, treat deepfakes as a primary vector of fraud.
—Christian Perry, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
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These pests don't just leave us with red, itchy bumps, but are also vectors of numerous diseases.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 17 June 2026
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One promising solution lies in the use of vector databases.
—Maulikkumar Pandya, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Such a unit researches new attack vectors and emerging threats.
—David Balaban, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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Email is still the top attack vector, and third-party partners with weak defenses put us all at risk.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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The meat is tougher than poultry raised for harvesting, and the feral birds can be a vector of disease.
—ABC News, 19 Feb. 2026
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Deepfakes and synthetic voice clones are now attack vectors.
—Jason Crawforth, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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After that, the vector is pretty much absorbed into the tissue.
—Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 4 May 2026
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Others approach from different vectors at a low profile to strike.
—Munis Raza, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026
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In this case, this means the direction of the change in velocity vector is upwards.
—WIRED, 25 Sep. 2022
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Politicians tend to end up with the vector of causality pointing in the wrong direction.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
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And in a steadily warming world, more places are becoming suitable for the disease and the vector that spreads it.
—Brady Dennis, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
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The vector of transmission appeared to be the streaming service hooked to their smart speakers.
—Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
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Maybe a persona of boastful anger has something in common, and the two persona vectors overlap.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Human-to-vector contact is on the rise as some insects find their way to new places that are becoming warmer and wetter.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 15 Aug. 2025
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One of the big challenges here was converting the image to vectors (lines) that Ameca could draw.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2023
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At this point, there are plenty of solutions that address major attack vectors.
—David Balaban, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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Few vessels could withstand the vectors moving through the North Atlantic that day.
—Porter Fox, New York Times, 9 May 2023
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Stories of how the company cares for employees are invaluable vectors of trust that spread by word of mouth.
—Ted Kitterman, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2025
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And that’s really what inspired people to use adenovirus as a vector.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
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Think owls, foxes, and coyotes, who prey on white-footed mice, a vector for lyme disease that ticks catch when feeding on the mice.
—Benjamin Vogt, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 June 2023
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In response, the county's vector control laid traps to help mitigate the problem.
—Michele Gile, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
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Physicists tried now and again to define equivalent vectors with real numbers.
—Daniel Garisto, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
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Those rear motors can rotate at different speeds to afford the e-Evo torque vectoring across its aft axle.
—Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 25 Oct. 2017
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Torque vectoring all-wheel drive is a $2,200 option with either engine.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
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Among its safety features are seven air bags and all-wheel traction control with torque vectoring to help keep drivers out of the spin cycle.
—Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 June 2017
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Modern thrust vectoring technology employs a movable thrust nozzle in place of the paddles.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2018
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The all-wheel drive system is rear biased and electronically controlled, with full-time dynamic torque vectoring control.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
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An optional torque vectoring system pulses the inside rear brake caliper in tandem with the rear differential for more stability.
—Tom Voelk, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2016
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All-wheel drive is standard while a torque-vectoring rear diff lends credibility to the notion of naming a crossover after a mountain road with 48 hairpin turns.
—Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2017
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In this case, take the attractive but dull-to-drive A7 fastback and give it a twin-turbo V8, uprated suspension, and a clever torque-vectoring rear diff, then build a few thousand each year.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2019
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Both harnessed broader disruptive energies — away from entrenched party establishments and toward a more populist and nationally vectored politics.
—Fred Bauer, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
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Taiwan’s Hawkeyes would be used during wartime to coordinate defense against enemy air attack, detecting incoming fighters at longer ranges and vectoring the island’s fighters to intercept.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 May 2019
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