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.
—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
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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Infection is rapid, causing swellings in the lymph nodes (buboes) and leading to septicaemia and pulmonary infection.—
Matthew Binnicker,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Her scans were clear until the three-month mark, when her doctors found suspicious nodules in her lungs.—
Natalie Krebs,
NPR,
9 June 2026
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The collector vehicle is lowered by a cable, and the nodules are returned to the surface in a separate pipe; for simplicity, the diagrams in this article do not show both at the same time.—
Harry Stevens,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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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.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 June 2026
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Lenders will take the keys and private equity will take its lumps, as designed.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
18 June 2026
Noun
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And there's going to be some bumps in the road, for sure.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
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At this distal end, which forms your elbow joint with your radius and ulna, are two bony bumps, called epicondyles.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
Noun
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In cats, the gene was frequently altered in mammary tumors.—
KYLE MELNICK THE WASHINGTON POST,
Arkansas Online,
21 June 2026
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There were two tumors in his brain.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
20 June 2026
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“Nodes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nodes. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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