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Recent Examples of dilation
Cervical dilation: During orgasm, the opening to the cervix dilates.
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Kelly Burch Updated, Verywell Health, 25 July 2024
Fat lines the outsides of our blood vessels, giving them support and helping to regulate dilation.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
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.
—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
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Kelly Burch Updated, Verywell Health, 25 July 2024
Fat lines the outsides of our blood vessels, giving them support and helping to regulate dilation.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dilation
Noun
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Their familiarity with Iberian language and culture, combined with the dispersion of their community, positioned them to participate in the new global economy: trade in sugar, textiles, spices – and the trade in human lives, Atlantic slavery.—
Flora Cassen,
The Conversation,
27 June 2025
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The standard deviation measures price volatility, so the bands widen during periods of high volatility and contract during periods of low volatility, visually representing the dispersion of prices around the mean.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
23 June 2025
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Start new plants with light scatterings of a general garden fertilizer every other month from February through September.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 June 2025
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Overall, the fish has a silvery body with a slight yellow tinge on its upper half and a scattering of small spots.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2025
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“Dilation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilation. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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