wavelet

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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. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Forgoing her usual twisted updo, Williams styled her hair in loose curls, cascading down the front of her body; her ends finished just below her chest.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Press-and-curls recall preparation for special occasions and milestones.
    Essence, Essence, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Then, Argentine attacker Nicolas Fernandez’s roller was denied by the right post at the half-hour mark after racing past and cutting by centerback Maximiliano ‘Peluca’ Falcon.
    Franco Panizo, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Once you’re done with the paint roller, pour any leftover paint back into the can, carefully fold up the foil, and discard.
    Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • However, there is a small ripple that could lead to a big wave of change.
    Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Indulgent treats of mochi, matcha, and raspberry ripple ice cream.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Wavelet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wavelet. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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