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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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Two authors have filed provisional patents covering aspects of the system design and its detection hardware integration.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Apr. 2026
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Starbucks uses ChatGPT to suggest drinks based on mood as expert warns of hidden downsides – Starbucks has launched a beta integration with ChatGPT, allowing customers to receive customized beverage recommendations tailored to their mood, taste, and even the weather.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
17 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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Bank’s trading desks, which match buyers and sellers of securities and provide them with financing to make trades, have feasted off of the volatility of the period, while more corporate clients are planning mergers to boost their prospects.—
Hugh Son,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2026
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Realistically, there is no end of hurdles — legal, political, practical — that would have to be surmounted for a partial Texas-New Mexico merger to occur.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
14 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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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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The mayor has also touted his merging of several city departments in the last two years as a successful effort to reduce middle management.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Concretion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concretion. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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