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Recent Examples of unpairedHydrogen peroxide forms as a byproduct when energetic particles break apart water molecules, leading to the recombination of OH radicals — highly reactive molecules with unpaired electrons.—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 23 July 2025 And the more unpaired spins a molecule has, the more complicated the interactions among them.—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2025 Each man then rejects all but his more preferred suitor, resulting in a tentative match for some contestants, while others remain unpaired.—Max Springer, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2024 This leads to a phenomenon known as magnetization precession, which occurs when atoms with unpaired electron spins are placed in a magnetic field and rotate around the magnetic field at a precise frequency.—IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2017 See All Example Sentences for unpaired
Toronto netminder Dennis Hildeby stoned Trevor Zegras on a breakaway, and later made consecutive saves on Matvei Michkov and Sean Couturier to spring the odd-man rush that led to Cowan's goal.
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The details of Cooper’s crime seemed too tempting to McNally, a high school dropout turned military-airplane electrician who’d pursued odd jobs and scams since being discharged.