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asymmetry

noun

Definition of asymmetry

as in imbalance

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Recent Examples of asymmetry Each letter stands for a warning sign, asymmetry, border, color, diameter and evolving. — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 18 Aug. 2026 Analysts at the bank said the company has an attractive risk/reward profile at the moment, and that the market is underappreciating the asymmetry between HPE's earnings power and valuation. — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026 Economists studying the post-recession years have found this asymmetry systematically rewarded people who already owned capital before the crash and penalized everyone who didn’t yet have any. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026 In addition to heart rate, calories burned, distance, duration, elevation, and speed, Samsung smartwatches track advanced running form metrics, including asymmetry, contact time, flight time, regularity, vertical oscillation, and stiffness. — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 10 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for asymmetry

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That could help address the cost imbalance created when militaries use missiles priced above $100,000 to destroy drones worth only a few hundred dollars.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
The most curious aspect of Webb’s first night in the play-calling seat was Denver’s pass-run imbalance when the game was still to be decided.

— Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of imbalance

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The disproportion between their small numbers and enormous consequences cannot be explained primarily by technology, mass media or even the war on terror.

— Faisal Devji, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
Manuel also jangles this apparent order with the striking visual trope of disorienting disproportions of scale—figures appearing unexpectedly small or large in the course’s expanses.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026

Definition of disproportion

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Most believe there could be solutions through civil dialog, there are answers in the middle, and there is destructive disunity at the fringes.

— Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2026
Whether that agreement will rapidly come to fruition on such a tight timeline is looking increasingly difficult – especially amid disunity among House and Senate Democrats.

— Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026

Definition of disunity

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