as in proportion
a balanced, pleasing, or suitable arrangement of parts
planted azalea bushes on both sides of the front steps for symmetry
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Recent Examples of symmetry
In a fitting bit of symmetry, this undefeated title comes 50 years after Bob Knight’s basketball team went 32-0 to win it all in that state’s favorite sport.
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Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
The discrete world can be just as rich as the smooth one, if not richer, revealing extra symmetries and connections that might otherwise get lost.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2026
United by their resentment of women, incels tend to see attractiveness as a straightforward function of genetics—millimeters, symmetry, skin color—and therefore out of their control.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026
First, his images of dreamlike whimsy are usually contained within a pleasing symmetry—they’re very Wes Anderson but in black and white.
—Air Mail, 17 Jan. 2026
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Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
The discrete world can be just as rich as the smooth one, if not richer, revealing extra symmetries and connections that might otherwise get lost.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2026
United by their resentment of women, incels tend to see attractiveness as a straightforward function of genetics—millimeters, symmetry, skin color—and therefore out of their control.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026
First, his images of dreamlike whimsy are usually contained within a pleasing symmetry—they’re very Wes Anderson but in black and white.
—Air Mail, 17 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for symmetry
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The normal state of those four fluids is harmony and perfect proportion, or eucrasia.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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The same proportion wanted to see better public transport connections between suburban areas and the inner city.—
Laurie Winkless,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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As for harmony between Charles and Harry, the last time the two are known to have seen one another face-to-face was last September, when Harry stopped by Charles’s London home, Clarence House, for a tea that lasted just under an hour.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
29 Jan. 2026
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Some of Butler’s songs are mere snippets, some are full-length numbers, often with vocals in the three-part harmony familiar from the time.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Jan. 2026
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Unlike earlier models limited to upper-body tasks, Helix 02 uses a single neural network to control walking, manipulation, and balance together, directly from raw sensor data.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
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Dickerson and Stephens are both current on their car loans and working with National Debt Relief to reduce their credit card balances.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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The model can handle both text and visual inputs and offers advanced coding and agent orchestration features.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
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An orchestration that argues Zionism is merely a political add-on that can be stripped away from the Jewish faith.—
Marc Schneier,
New York Daily News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Despite its volatility, its general correlation with traditional asset classes such as stocks, bonds, and fiat currencies has generally grown.—
Jason Phillips,
Ascend Agency,
30 Jan. 2026
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Hood pushed back on the idea that investors should draw a direct correlation between capital expenditures and Azure’s revenue figures.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
29 Jan. 2026
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Trump is being countered effectively by allied leaders and CEOs standing up in unity, and by financial markets openly revolting against his tantrums.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
29 Jan. 2026
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Keeping schools together Maintaining unity was reportedly the rationale behind why Garland ISD opted to put five of its seven high schools — Garland, Lakeview Centennial, Naaman Forest, Rowlett and South Garland — in higher classifications.—
Myah Taylor,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Remaining founder-led allowed the team to prioritize coherence over speed as new opportunities emerged.—
Gabby Shacknai,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The societies that can advance to the frontiers of the productive power that capitalism unleashes while maintaining their coherence and élan advance to the front of the race for international status and power.—
Walter Russell Mead,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2026
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These familiar crystals exist in thermal equilibrium, maintaining their structure without energy input.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
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After the system reaches equilibrium, the programmers can read the solution in the new configuration of the resonators.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Symmetry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/symmetry. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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