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Recent Examples of dilation
Fat lines the outsides of our blood vessels, giving them support and helping to regulate dilation.
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Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
Dealing with the effects of time-dilation on the characters, where the high-school protagonist Noriko Takaya stays young while her friends and classmates age around her, also has similarities to Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Researchers found that women who ate dates had a significantly higher cervical dilation at hospital admission and were more likely to go into spontaneous labor.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Fat lines the outsides of our blood vessels, giving them support and helping to regulate dilation.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
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Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
Dealing with the effects of time-dilation on the characters, where the high-school protagonist Noriko Takaya stays young while her friends and classmates age around her, also has similarities to Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Researchers found that women who ate dates had a significantly higher cervical dilation at hospital admission and were more likely to go into spontaneous labor.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Fat lines the outsides of our blood vessels, giving them support and helping to regulate dilation.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dilation
Noun
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Refraction is the bending of light, while dispersion scatters it.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Discover Magazine,
28 May 2025
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The velocity dispersion in Ophion, as measured by Gaia, is much larger than normal, at 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) per second.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The remains — which included a skull and a scattering of separated bones — were collected from the beach destination and are slated to undergo forensic analysis to determine their origin and age, Newsweek reported.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
29 May 2025
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Her matching set consisted of a pencil skirt and blazer cinched with a belt, all of which featured a scattering of white polka dots against a sky blue fabric.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
19 May 2025
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“Dilation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilation. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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