as in swellings
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 nodes
Custom chip design at today’s most advanced manufacturing nodes costs hundreds of millions of dollars before a product ships.
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Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
22 June 2026
Take a cutting between the nodes – the place where the leaves grow out from.
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Dr. Matthew Lisy,
Hartford Courant,
21 June 2026
Every system assigned to protect population centers, oil infrastructure or strategic facilities is a system unavailable to protect logistical nodes and operational support areas closer to the front.
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Hunter Lacroix,
Baltimore Sun,
20 June 2026
Panthalassa evades these regional regulatory and environmental obstacles by deploying autonomous computing nodes directly into deep water.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
19 June 2026
Both the credentials and the screenshots are then sent to the attacker through Tor, a network protocol that provides anonymous routing by sending traffic through redundant nodes so logs can’t capture both the sending and receiving IP addresses.
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Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
18 June 2026
In Charlotte, that translation problem plays out against the backdrop of a city that has quietly become one of the more important logistics nodes in the American Southeast — a place where getting the forecast right has consequences that extend well beyond the warehouse.
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Karen Koehler,
Charlotte Observer,
17 June 2026
Little polyurethane nodes are cast in the shape of Cs on the medial side and no.
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Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
17 June 2026
Echoing the political philosophy of John Rawls, Habermas writes that a healthy deliberative democracy must serve multiple nodes of opinion.
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Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
22 June 2026
Take a cutting between the nodes – the place where the leaves grow out from.
—
Dr. Matthew Lisy,
Hartford Courant,
21 June 2026
Every system assigned to protect population centers, oil infrastructure or strategic facilities is a system unavailable to protect logistical nodes and operational support areas closer to the front.
—
Hunter Lacroix,
Baltimore Sun,
20 June 2026
Panthalassa evades these regional regulatory and environmental obstacles by deploying autonomous computing nodes directly into deep water.
—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
19 June 2026
Both the credentials and the screenshots are then sent to the attacker through Tor, a network protocol that provides anonymous routing by sending traffic through redundant nodes so logs can’t capture both the sending and receiving IP addresses.
—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
18 June 2026
In Charlotte, that translation problem plays out against the backdrop of a city that has quietly become one of the more important logistics nodes in the American Southeast — a place where getting the forecast right has consequences that extend well beyond the warehouse.
—
Karen Koehler,
Charlotte Observer,
17 June 2026
Little polyurethane nodes are cast in the shape of Cs on the medial side and no.
—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
17 June 2026
Echoing the political philosophy of John Rawls, Habermas writes that a healthy deliberative democracy must serve multiple nodes of opinion.
—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nodes
Noun
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This microscopic roundworm lays its eggs in root tissues, causing swellings or galls to develop on infected roots.
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Infection is rapid, causing swellings in the lymph nodes (buboes) and leading to septicaemia and pulmonary infection.
Noun
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In facultative endosymbiosis, the symbiont can live independently, as in the case of nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium bacteria in the root nodules of leguminous plants.
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Her scans were clear until the three-month mark, when her doctors found suspicious nodules in her lungs.
Noun
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Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.
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Lenders will take the keys and private equity will take its lumps, as designed.
Noun
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As viewers know, her journey to get to happily ever after was filled with a lot of bumps in the road, as well as another suitor, William Ryder (Laurie Davidson).
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Wheeler grinned before Hill exchanged high-fives and chest bumps with right fielder Brandon Marsh.
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In cats, the gene was frequently altered in mammary tumors.
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There were two tumors in his brain.
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“Nodes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nodes. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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