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Recent Examples of concretion
Love boasts no inherent magic by which these differences may be neatly expunged; each one must be resolved, or left open, in the total concretion of experience.
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Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
The museum was interested and asked to keep it to work on it to take off the many layers on concretion on it.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2024
Parade sets out to go beyond the novel’s habitual concretion, to undo our attachment to the stability of selfhood and its social markers.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
The head of the ankylosaur still partly encased in the concretion it was discovered in.
—Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2023
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Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
The museum was interested and asked to keep it to work on it to take off the many layers on concretion on it.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2024
Parade sets out to go beyond the novel’s habitual concretion, to undo our attachment to the stability of selfhood and its social markers.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
The head of the ankylosaur still partly encased in the concretion it was discovered in.
—Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concretion
Noun
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Scientists had long observed two distinct absorption and emission signals in the material that existing theories could not fully explain.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Apr. 2026
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Researchers are also exploring structural tweaks to the molecule that could expand its absorption range into the visible light spectrum while maintaining its energy density and stability.—
Chelsea Haney
April 10,
New Atlas,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Despite his individual excellence, Forsberg deferred to the Kings’ recent coalescence.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Spike focused on important design features with a major focus on geometry, including features like a long nose and high sweep, and a custom tail volume and multi-lobe lift distribution, aiming to reduce shock coalescence.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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After the core stage arrives at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, teams will complete the stage outfitting and vertical integration, and the agency’s Exploration Ground Systems Program will stack the rocket’s components in preparation for launch.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
24 Apr. 2026
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Proceeds from the sale of the merchandise will be donated to the International Institute of Los Angeles (IILA), a nonprofit organization that provides immigration legal assistance, refugee support and essential services for immigrant integration in the city.—
Eduard Cauich,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Such banks were to be governed by the usury laws, or lack thereof, of their states of incorporation.—
George Liebmann,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Apr. 2026
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The former Saints Peter and Paul leaders argue that the church is an independent institution, formed in the 1950s under its own articles of incorporation and by laws, long before OCA even existed.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
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Monday’s public comment period before the vote lasted over four hours, with dozens of people speaking against the merger.—
Nora O'Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Apr. 2026
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The president made the remarks during a live wide-ranging CNBC interview in the context of public speculation of a possible merger between United Airlines and American Airlines.—
David Lyons,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Apr. 2026
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Ultimately, behavioral homogenization is making wildlife in cities such as Los Angeles, Lima, Lagos and Lahore behave in similar ways despite living in different environments and having different evolutionary histories.—
Daniel T. Blumstein,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2026
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As more people use AI models to write and think, those outputs are reabsorbed into human discourse — and eventually into the data used to train the next generation of models —so the homogenization keeps compounding, the paper’s authors said.—
Asuka Koda,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2026
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The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee amended the bill to include language from House Bill 1141, which would make commingling of a committee with personal funds up to $50,000 a Class A misdemeanor.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
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This sacred commingling—a dialectical materialism, really—gave us our pale blue dot.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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The merging of brands following bank deals often moves much quicker.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2026
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This bottleneck causes daily backups of at least half a mile, creating dangerous merging conditions into bumper-to-bumper traffic.—
Jim Radcliffe,
Oc Register,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Concretion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concretion. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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