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Recent Examples of wavelet
Pipe those wavelets of foie gras feculence over to neighboring Surfside, a two-bathroom kind of town with waste pipes galore.
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Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025
Its wavelets lap enticingly at our feet, but the breaker that might truly knock the breath out of us never comes.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
The band, created by a bunch of teenagers in 1984, was starting to make wavelets in its tiny musical niche when its singer, Per Ohlin (nom de metal: Dead), died by suicide in 1991, at age 22.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
For example, complex analysis is used to manipulate wavelets, or small oscillations in data.
—William Ross, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025
Does the little surge of Trump dances across sports represent a wave, or at least a wavelet, of athletes declaring their allegiances for the President-elect?
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
And importantly, the agency says, despite these wavelets of illness, severe outcomes like hospitalizations and deaths have been dropping since 2020 and 2021.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
Some of these gravity waves were caused by air flowing from the northwest over the Appalachians and Alleghenies, which caused downstream wavelets, like ripples downstream of stone in a river.
—Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025
Its wavelets lap enticingly at our feet, but the breaker that might truly knock the breath out of us never comes.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
The band, created by a bunch of teenagers in 1984, was starting to make wavelets in its tiny musical niche when its singer, Per Ohlin (nom de metal: Dead), died by suicide in 1991, at age 22.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
For example, complex analysis is used to manipulate wavelets, or small oscillations in data.
—William Ross, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025
Does the little surge of Trump dances across sports represent a wave, or at least a wavelet, of athletes declaring their allegiances for the President-elect?
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
And importantly, the agency says, despite these wavelets of illness, severe outcomes like hospitalizations and deaths have been dropping since 2020 and 2021.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
Some of these gravity waves were caused by air flowing from the northwest over the Appalachians and Alleghenies, which caused downstream wavelets, like ripples downstream of stone in a river.
—Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wavelet
Noun
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The brown trout of a lifetime that just sipped your fly can shoot down a riffle and bust that delicate 6-pound tippet.—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
19 June 2025
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Here’s a general guideline of the classification of rapids, according to author I. Herbert Gordon: Class I: Easy, slower water with light riffles.—
Morgan Tilton,
Denver Post,
8 June 2025
Noun
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Longer prongs diffuse less heat on your hair, providing softer curl definition.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
16 Oct. 2025
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With her hair in bouncy curls that rival Sarah Jessica Parker’s in the iconic TV show, the singer struts through 30 Rock while smiling at her own inner monologue.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Roomba's double-sided brush mounts gradually build up a tangle at either end, eventually requiring you to pull the ends off the roller and dig all the hair out.—
Loz Blain
October 14,
New Atlas,
14 Oct. 2025
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And then a few Tech fans come along this weekend with their old, crusty roller brush and slung it all over the place, Jackson Pollock-style, only this isn’t a work of art.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In the scope was one of the many tiny fish bones that were found that day, probably belonging to a small comber or a wrasse.—
Paul Greenberg,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Dec. 2022
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The destructive combers continued to undermine dwellings near the water’s edge at West Newport Beach.—
Scott Harrison,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Sep. 2019
Noun
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And the commercial ripple did follow.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
17 Oct. 2025
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The economic ripple extended into the classroom as well.—
Stuart Dyos,
Nashville Tennessean,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Wavelet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wavelet. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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