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Recent Examples of homology
In 1984, the genome of Shope virus was sequenced, which revealed significant homology with HPV type 1a.
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Matthew Binnicker, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Which part of the complex manifold’s homology can be obtained by looking at these topological invariants?
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
There is an object, called a homology, which gives you a lot of topological information about the manifold.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
By the end of that decade those methods had blossomed into an entire area of study, Heegaard Floer homology, and within that area there are now a number of different approaches to distinguishing manifolds.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
Mathematician Jose Perea of Northeastern University and a team of computational biologists used persistent homology to find periodic biological processes—those that repeat at regular intervals.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
To find these implicit pictures, mathematicians use a technique known as persistent homology.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
After using some standard techniques to simplify the data, the team computed the persistent homology of the system by connecting the data points at different scales and examining the resulting simplicial complexes.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
Hayden and Sundberg had been doing some exciting work recently using an invariant called Khovanov homology, which uses algebra to extract information about how an object is put together.
—Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2022
Matthew Binnicker, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Which part of the complex manifold’s homology can be obtained by looking at these topological invariants?
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
There is an object, called a homology, which gives you a lot of topological information about the manifold.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
By the end of that decade those methods had blossomed into an entire area of study, Heegaard Floer homology, and within that area there are now a number of different approaches to distinguishing manifolds.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
Mathematician Jose Perea of Northeastern University and a team of computational biologists used persistent homology to find periodic biological processes—those that repeat at regular intervals.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
To find these implicit pictures, mathematicians use a technique known as persistent homology.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
After using some standard techniques to simplify the data, the team computed the persistent homology of the system by connecting the data points at different scales and examining the resulting simplicial complexes.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
Hayden and Sundberg had been doing some exciting work recently using an invariant called Khovanov homology, which uses algebra to extract information about how an object is put together.
—Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homology
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City morphed into this shape plenty in attacking during 2022-23 (when John Stones would move from centre-back into midfield), but generally there has been a homogeneity of 4-3-3 among the league’s best.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
12 Aug. 2025
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Over time, this narrows the talent pool and can reinforce homogeneity across teams.—
Stanislava Tarasiuk,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Modern platforms can deliver the operational equivalence that teams expect: advanced virtual machine (VM) lifecycle management, high-availability (HA) clustering, backups, disaster recovery (DR) and more.—
Madhura Maskasky,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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To this end, campaigners forged an equivalence between taking sugar and drinking human blood.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 July 2025
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This privacy and oneness with the deep blue feels very VIP yacht—and this sporty skort is excellent to wear over swimwear with its quick-drying fabric.—
Alexandra Pereira,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Aug. 2025
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Several times, as another musician plays, Monk stands center stage and spins in place, in febrile oneness with the music.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Homology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homology. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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