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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.
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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.
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Nicholas Dames,
The Atlantic,
14 June 2024
The head of the ankylosaur still partly encased in the concretion it was discovered in.
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Jeanne Timmons,
Ars Technica,
25 Jan. 2023
See All Example Sentences for concretion
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
See All Example Sentences for concretion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for concretion
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That eight-step process analyses balls according to eight criteria, including circumference, water absorption, rebound height, shape and size retention, and sphericity (a measurement of roundness).
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The best ones pull me into a state of total absorption, back to the way reading felt in childhood.
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Despite his individual excellence, Forsberg deferred to the Kings’ recent coalescence.
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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.
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The rapid integration of AI into healthcare is fueling a massive demand for advanced computing hardware like GPUs.
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These include assessments of propulsion and power generation systems, maneuverability, diving and surfacing performance, navigation and communication systems, sonar and sensor performance, weapons integration, and overall seaworthiness.
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What changed along the way was the gradual incorporation of genre elements.
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The incorporation documents for HAL9001 were signed by the venture capitalist Roman Sobachevskiy.
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For longtime customer Nita Lynch, who has banked with FirstBank since 1975, the merger has meant spending hours updating routing numbers, retirement accounts and automatic payments.
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Scientists believe the galactic wind is being driven by intense star formation and supernova explosions triggered by the merger, though a supermassive black hole could also be playing a role.
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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.
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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.
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The ominous buzzing of phones, the commingling of accomplishment and humiliation, the sudden pathos of cheap glass awards, the rage at their now-former CEO’s $11 million paycheck… David Frankel’s film knew exactly which buttons to push in our particular audience.
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Last month, Cherfilus-McCormick was found guilty of 25 House ethics violations, including acceptance of improper campaign contributions and commingling of campaign and personal funds.
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To fully experience the merging of the two, stop by Sarajevo’s Meeting of Cultures, a street marker that marks their physical intersection.
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Then there's the merging of the two in the same video.
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“Concretion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concretion. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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