How to Use synthesize in a Sentence

synthesize

verb
  • Amino acid is synthesized in the body.
  • He synthesized old and new ideas to form his theory.
  • She synthesized the treatment from traditional and modern philosophies of medicine.
  • This is what the stack of four dyes synthesized in Würzburg looks like.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The more melanin skin has, the less vitamin D the body can synthesize from the sun.
    — Brittany Lubeck, Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 17 Mar. 2025
  • His team was the first to devise a method to synthesize the vitamin folic acid.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 5 June 2018
  • Decades ago, humans learned to sequence and synthesize DNA—that is, to read and write it.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
  • But all of this noise obscures the simple way to synthesize all of this: Less is better.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The trick is to use data from the brain to synthesize speech in real time so users can practice and the machine can learn.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 9 Nov. 2021
  • It was made in a lab and was easy to synthesize from a few ingredients.
    — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • So synthesizing a whole gene will still likely take the better part of a day.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 18 June 2018
  • The ability to synthesize DNA has been around since the early 1980s.
    — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 11 May 2023
  • Loraine James, meanwhile, found a way to synthesize both states of mind.
    — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2021
  • Bar-Tal and co have come up with a different approach that synthesizes the entire video at the same time.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The goal of this team’s work wasn’t to reintroduce poliovirus into the wild, but to learn how to synthesize viruses.
    — Amy Webb, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Yaghi and his colleagues synthesized the first MOF in 1995, and chemists have created tens of thousands of the structures since.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But the issue extends to the way insights are gathered and synthesized.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Chop Suey places Lily and June Bugg’s world in the context of the wider one, synthesizing dreamt-together towns and cities and the work of real, live artists.
    — Amy Rose Spiegel, The Cut, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Is this combo of cheese and synthesized strings way better?
    — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 1 May 2015
  • Yet this was a chance to learn, to grow, to study elements of the international game and synthesize them with the Cubs’ style.
    — Eric Sondheimer columnist follow, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • So the hardest thing to do is to synthesize something — to summarize it in a sentence.
    — Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Taj Mahal was way ahead of the game in synthesizing strands of music from around the world into his own approach.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 12 July 2019
  • Lactic acid is the most gentle of the three because mammals can synthesize it in our muscles.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The cards were pricey, though, because synthesizing DNA is still a fairly slow and costly process.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Vitamin D is synthesized in skin when it's exposed to UVB wavelengths from the sun.
    — Lisa Drayer, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Then synthesize that, turn it into something that works as a drug, then start giving it to people.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 5 Apr. 2020
  • His own lab is trying to develop a clean process to synthesize nitrogen from the air.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2022
  • Many sources cite M.I. Gujral from India as the first to synthesize the drug (while looking for a malaria treatment), but that factoid is hard to prove.
    — Aliya S. King, The Root, 13 June 2017
  • That builds up to high school, where students start to synthesize solutions in the classroom, Quincy said.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 19 May 2022
  • Though your skin can synthesize vitamin D via sunlight exposure, the tone of your skin may affect vitamin D levels.
    — Brittany Lubeck, Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 17 Mar. 2025

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