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Recent Examples of dilation
Dealing with the effects of time-dilation on the characters, where the high-school protagonist Noriko Takaya stays young while her friends and classmates age around her, also has similarities to Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War.
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Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Researchers found that women who ate dates had a significantly higher cervical dilation at hospital admission and were more likely to go into spontaneous labor.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Fat lines the outsides of our blood vessels, giving them support and helping to regulate dilation.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
Identifying Fetal Demise The standard of care for second-trimester miscarriage or rupture of membranes prior to fetal viability is to offer patients a dilation and evacuation or an induction to end the pregnancy — even if there is still a fetal heartbeat.
—Andrea Suozzo, ProPublica, 20 Feb. 2025
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Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Researchers found that women who ate dates had a significantly higher cervical dilation at hospital admission and were more likely to go into spontaneous labor.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Fat lines the outsides of our blood vessels, giving them support and helping to regulate dilation.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
Identifying Fetal Demise The standard of care for second-trimester miscarriage or rupture of membranes prior to fetal viability is to offer patients a dilation and evacuation or an induction to end the pregnancy — even if there is still a fetal heartbeat.
—Andrea Suozzo, ProPublica, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dilation
Noun
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And rendering specialists need it to accurately simulate real-world optical effects like dispersion (rainbows from prisms, for example) and fluorescence.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Mar. 2025
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This is the dispersion of aerosols like fireworks or industrial pollutants that are inhibited by surface-level temperatures either the same or higher in the atmosphere up to a couple thousand feet. .—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
The Arizona Republic,
2 Jan. 2025
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When the team treated the duck fat with lipases, mixed it with normal liver, and then studied it with X-ray scattering and other techniques, the result was remarkably similar to foie gras.—
Ari Daniel,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2025
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Imagined as a precious floral lace placed on the skin, its rose gold mesh serves as the background for a scattering of precious floral motifs executed in marquise and pear-cut diamonds.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Dilation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilation. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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