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Recent Examples of asymmetry
The result is a force built on redundancy, asymmetry and endurance.
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Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2026
Studying antimatter can help scientists understand the nature of this asymmetry, but doing so isn’t easy.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
Poplawski theorizes that the reason the matter and antimatter asymmetry exists is that tiny primordial black holes created during the Big Bang gobbled up vast amounts of antimatter.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026
This asymmetry of resolve is Iran’s greatest structural advantage.
—Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
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Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2026
Studying antimatter can help scientists understand the nature of this asymmetry, but doing so isn’t easy.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
Poplawski theorizes that the reason the matter and antimatter asymmetry exists is that tiny primordial black holes created during the Big Bang gobbled up vast amounts of antimatter.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026
This asymmetry of resolve is Iran’s greatest structural advantage.
—Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for asymmetry
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The limits of prosperity That imbalance is also showing up in the growing demand for basic services.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Some pieces in matching sets can be the wrong size for a room, causing an imbalance.—
Nomita Vaish-Taylor,
The Spruce,
3 Apr. 2026
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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
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Sonon, for example, started out as a cartoonist and uses physical disproportion to express the personalities of characters.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Dec. 2025
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An intense search-and-rescue effort is underway for the second crew member of an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet that crashed in Iran amid escalating tension in the Middle East.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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Starbucks’ $500 million turnaround effort and union tensions The coffee chain’s new pay perks come amid a $500 million turnaround effort and ongoing tensions with unionized workers.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
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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
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One minute, the Earth’s citizens are pursuing their destinies in raucous, competitive disunity.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Nov. 2025
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“Asymmetry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/asymmetry. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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