How to Use synthesis in a Sentence

synthesis

noun
  • In fact, this five room B&B is a perfect synthesis of the now and the then.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 30 May 2018
  • The bass guitar is kind of a synthesis of rhythm and melody.
    Jacob Sweet, sacbee.com, 22 June 2017
  • The Montero comes into this world in either base or Sport guise, but the Raider is a synthesis of the two.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 1 July 2023
  • At the time, DNA synthesis was a slow and difficult process.
    New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • That takes time, as does the education of two big-minute rookies and the synthesis of what is a young team, through and through.
    Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2017
  • The thesis of love always fights the antithesis of hate, but there is never a synthesis that joins the two.
    Carlos Valladares, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Sometimes the synthesis is a long time coming—as has been the case with race in America.
    Lance Morrow, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • To replicate, viruses need to suppress the genes of the host cell and instead favor synthesis of their own.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Church’s team used synthesis in follow-up work to recode seven codons in the E. coli genome.
    Elie Dolgin, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • And then also there's the synthesis of working with my fellow Aries, Miss Mandy Moore, who is a joy in and of herself.
    Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • In the end, the book’s merits lie not in the depth of its analysis but in its breadth of synthesis and quotable lucidity.
    Matthew Hutson, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Because the recipe for LK-99’s synthesis is straightforward, results could come in the next few days or weeks.
    Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 27 July 2023
  • Fried chicken is one of the world’s great culinary syntheses, found in cultures and kitchens in every patch of the planet: bird, flour, fat.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The Start menu was back in a brilliant synthesis of tiles, buttons, and menu elements (see the video below).
    PCMAG, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Synthesis is due out this fall, along with a tour that will include a full orchestra.
    Colin Stutz, Billboard, 10 May 2017
  • Still, his work can start to guide chemists’ further synthesis efforts.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2018
  • The more protein your body stores—in a process called protein synthesis—the larger your muscles grow.
    Jake Boly, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Not to mention, in its current nascent state, speech synthesis could open a big ethical can of worms.
    Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Among money-courses, the best synthesis to date is found at Reforge.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Among those genes are ones involved in translation, the synthesis of proteins — a finding that came as a shock.
    Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The proteins whose synthesis is induced by the vaccine, on the other hand, have been produced by yourself.
    Enrique Dans, Forbes, 16 May 2021
  • Even a brief summary of the ruling is hard to provide; the court’s own synthesis of its conclusions is five pages long.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Her vision was a Pan-African synthesis that borrowed from Europe as well.
    Brian Seibert, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Workforces that skip the synthesis and processing steps may do so at their peril.
    Erin Schumaker, ABC News, 5 July 2021
  • The coalition agreement is a synthesis of the two men’s political projects.
    The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • For me, the synthesis of these worlds into my identity was seamless.
    Sharad Devarajan, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
  • In his pedestrian way, Green attempts the same synthesis.
    Armond White, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The brassy, dance-happy synthesis that results is no less notable 53 years later, although the band is now led by the adult children of its late founder, Juan Formell.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The notion of a perfect movie is absurd, but some movies attain an ideal synthesis of the director’s body of work.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 June 2023
  • The feeling of those years is reflected, in some ways, in the film but the synthesis process also generates precision.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024

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