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Recent Examples of dilation
For those with severe tinnitus, their involuntary facial twitches and pupil dilation occurred in response to pleasant and unpleasant sounds, as their nervous system was unable to differentiate good from bad.
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Bronwyn Thompson, New Atlas, 11 May 2025
Young people's more elastic eyes allow for wider pupil dilation, improving their ability to see in the dark and adapt to low light conditions more quickly.
—Matt Morris, Space.com, 6 June 2025
Asa has been back and forth from the hospital from November 2023 to this day, undergoing a procedure that stretches his esophagus to make swallowing easier, called esophageal dilation.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 May 2025
The Chiefs’ leader will have celebrated his 30th birthday when Arrowhead rolls out the red-and-gold carpet for Jayden Daniels & Co., but given the weird dilation of post-COVID time and the Chiefs’ watery ubiquity, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Mahomes went to high school with Sid Luckman.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 May 2025
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Bronwyn Thompson, New Atlas, 11 May 2025
Young people's more elastic eyes allow for wider pupil dilation, improving their ability to see in the dark and adapt to low light conditions more quickly.
—Matt Morris, Space.com, 6 June 2025
Asa has been back and forth from the hospital from November 2023 to this day, undergoing a procedure that stretches his esophagus to make swallowing easier, called esophageal dilation.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 May 2025
The Chiefs’ leader will have celebrated his 30th birthday when Arrowhead rolls out the red-and-gold carpet for Jayden Daniels & Co., but given the weird dilation of post-COVID time and the Chiefs’ watery ubiquity, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Mahomes went to high school with Sid Luckman.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dilation
Noun
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For example, vaccine distribution involves intricate logistics and cold storage planning, strict safety and compliance requirements and optimizing for both consolidation (such as co-locating compatible products) and dispersion (like geographic and weather risks).—
Michael Amori,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Monuments from the Holocene Humid Period in the Dhofar were built in a single episode by groups requiring as many as seven strong men, whereas the subsequent aridification of the climate and resulting dispersion of the population encouraged the creation of accretive monuments.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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Since this star has known properties, it can be used as a baseline for calculations to get rid of the light noise from Alpha Centauri A, light scattering, and interference from the telescope itself.—
David Szondy
August 14,
New Atlas,
14 Aug. 2025
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Or funeral homes may offer scattering at sea services during which their team spreads the ashes for you in the Atlantic off Miami’s coast.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Dilation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilation. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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