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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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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).—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
20 June 2026
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The best ones pull me into a state of total absorption, back to the way reading felt in childhood.—
Angelina Mazza,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
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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
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An in-app commerce integration with Swiggy, enabling food ordering without exiting a live stream, debuted during IPL matches.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
19 June 2026
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To support that goal, Rheinmetall Destinus Strike Systems plans to establish a facility in Germany for final assembly, integration, and testing.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
19 June 2026
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In my case, just about all of it appeared to be extraneous documentation, like incorporation paperwork for Sackler’s firm, which seemed irrelevant to the matter at hand.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2026
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Find the original articles of incorporation.—
David Farinella,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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If the Paramount merger doesn’t kibosh the whole project, Variety says production could begin as early as the middle of 2027, as Cooper is committed to work on a new Ocean’s film.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2026
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That’s in addition to its investigation of potential anticompetitive issues under standard merger rules with a July 7 deadline.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
16 June 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 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.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
29 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Lauren Peller,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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Then there's the merging of the two in the same video.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 June 2026
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The University of Denver announced a major academic restructuring Tuesday that includes closing and merging departments and combining schools at the 11,500-student campus.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
9 June 2026
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“Concretion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concretion. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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