as in nodule
a small rounded mass of swollen tissue
the doctor examined the node on my knee before deciding it was the result of arthritis
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Recent Examples of node
Saturn’s conjunction with the north node in Pisces on the 21st should bring a profound opportunity to align your actions with your higher purpose.
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Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 June 2025
Murders most often took place in markets, squares, and thoroughfares—all key nodes of medieval urban life—in the evenings or on weekends.
—ArsTechnica, 6 June 2025
Later this year, Intel will begin to deliver chips made on production node 18A to customers; volume shipments will begin early next year.
—Anshel Sag, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
And with its next-generation Blackwell chips ramping up, inference workloads scaling globally, and governments racing to build AI capacity using Nvidia infrastructure, China has become — if not an afterthought — then certainly just one node in a much larger empire.
—Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 29 May 2025
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Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 June 2025
Murders most often took place in markets, squares, and thoroughfares—all key nodes of medieval urban life—in the evenings or on weekends.
—ArsTechnica, 6 June 2025
Later this year, Intel will begin to deliver chips made on production node 18A to customers; volume shipments will begin early next year.
—Anshel Sag, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
And with its next-generation Blackwell chips ramping up, inference workloads scaling globally, and governments racing to build AI capacity using Nvidia infrastructure, China has become — if not an afterthought — then certainly just one node in a much larger empire.
—Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for node
Noun
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Seabed nodules were located at profound depth and pressure; extracting them was therefore a complex and capital-intensive process.—
Time,
Time,
17 June 2025
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Instead of the process taking days, a pathologist in the room with Milan looked at the biopsy of Lesk’s nodule under a microscope moments after it was removed and identified it as cancerous.—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
15 June 2025
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The swelling on her brain is still not fully gone, causing difficulties with speech and mobility of the right side of her body as well as memory problems.—
Nicole Acevedo,
NBC news,
12 June 2025
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The Martian felt better on Tuesday despite some swelling and bruising, but Boone held him out of the lineup.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
3 June 2025
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Order the jumbo lump or save a few bucks and opt for the equally tasty backfin version.—
Christina Tkacik,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 June 2025
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In a fifty-eight-year-old survivor of breast cancer with a strong family history of the disease, a new lump near the original site likely signals recurrence—intervention is warranted.—
Siddhartha Mukherjee,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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Investors who can stomach the bumps may end up owning a piece of mobility’s future infrastructure—not just a car stock.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Despite the bump, bearish signals remain on the horizon, with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifying at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday that the central bank will likely keep rates steady as the threat of inflation remains.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
24 June 2025
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That study has enrolled only nine patients, however, and the results so far show that just one patient’s tumor actually shrank, according to a recent scientific abstract.—
Benjamin Mazer,
The Atlantic,
17 June 2025
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The study examined patients with advanced triple-negative breast cancer whose tumors express PD-L1.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
17 June 2025
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“Node.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/node. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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