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Recent Examples of coefficient None of them are quite as stealthy as apple juice and none of their coefficients of stickiness exceed 70. Caleb Harris, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 Anyway, the final substance that lands high on the coefficient of stickiness list is pancake syrup. Caleb Harris, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 The top five nations in the association club coefficient rankings only have one team each in the competition, with all of them starting their involvement in the play-off round. Paul Taylor, New York Times, 29 May 2025 Specifically, your function has to be a polynomial — a combination of variables raised to whole-number exponents and multiplied by coefficients. Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for coefficient
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Noun
  • All of these things that created such a huge amount of planning, but nothing was left for herself so often.
    Ryan Coleman Updated, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • This amount tops the total $75 million in 2024, the previous highest purse in tennis history, an increase of 20 percent.
    Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Jupiter will get closer to Venus, from about seven degrees on Aug. 5 to a mere 0.9 degrees on Aug. 12, then back to seven degrees on Aug. 20.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • In July 2024, the average high temperature was 112.3 degrees, nearly 6 degrees above the average and the second-warmest July on record.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Hairstyles, hair color (and quantity) change over time.
    William Arruda, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • That data, in turn, drives decision-making, including over the kinds and quantities of drones to procure.
    ERIC SCHMIDT, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2025

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“Coefficient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coefficient. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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