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Recent Examples of disk
The team then compared this to the ratio of the same gases in the disk that formed the planet.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Devs would copy their games to disks and sell them in baggies to hobby shops, or direct by mail via magazine ads.
—Bluesky Social, 15 Jan. 2025
Sometimes the boundary of the disk hits a mass of singularities.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
This image shows the pink layer of the sun's chromosphere around the dark disk of the moon during totality.
—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Devs would copy their games to disks and sell them in baggies to hobby shops, or direct by mail via magazine ads.
—Bluesky Social, 15 Jan. 2025
Sometimes the boundary of the disk hits a mass of singularities.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
This image shows the pink layer of the sun's chromosphere around the dark disk of the moon during totality.
—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disk
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After a seven-year voyage, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped a capsule of about 120 grams of precious asteroid fragments into the Utah desert in September 2023.—
Ella Jeffries,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Jan. 2025
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The Tacoma’s exterior plastic was melted and its front bumper reduced to fragments, but the truck’s engine bay remained largely unscathed.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
29 Jan. 2025
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Architectural Digest may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.—
Fanny Guénon des Mesnards,
Architectural Digest,
1 Feb. 2025
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Alonso will also owe the state of New York $2.73 million on the non-signing bonus portion of the deal ($50 million), meaning a combined income tax of $28.63 million ($25.9 million + $2.73 million).—
Robert Raiola,
Sportico.com,
1 Feb. 2025
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At one point, Abrams and Hobert journeyed from their stage left section and joined the conversation.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA TODAY,
3 Feb. 2025
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For more information, visit the getting there section of the hotel's website.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Feb. 2025
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These particles have been found in various bodily organs—including the kidney, liver, placenta and testes—although not at such concentrations as now seen in the brain, the team said.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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The thought is that the body recognizes these plastic particles and chemicals as foreign invaders, flipping the inflammatory response on.—
Carolyn L. Todd,
SELF,
5 Feb. 2025
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The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Feb. 2025
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Those shards, smaller than the eye can see, were concentrated in the walls of arteries and veins of brain as well as in the brain’s immune cells.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN,
3 Feb. 2025
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Reality check: Data center jobs still make up a sliver of U.S. employment overall.—
Melissa Santos,
Axios,
30 Jan. 2025
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Media access is meticulously controlled, leaving only slivers of time to photograph practice or conduct interviews.—
Monty Davis,
Kansas City Star,
29 Jan. 2025
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Huge flakes were falling, there were eight inches of fresh snow, the trees were covered.—
Shauna Farnell,
The Denver Post,
29 Jan. 2025
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Get the Recipe What to do with the leftovers: Heat some seasoned chickpeas in a skillet, add a few fillets of firm white fish, transfer to a low oven and bake just until the fish flakes with a fork.—
Amiel Stanek,
Bon Appétit,
29 Jan. 2025
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The skyrocketing costs associated with the AI revolution have been a boon for companies like Nvidia, Broadcom, and Marvell, which have thrived on the explosive demand for AI chips and services.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
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To be precise: bison liver pate with sweet onion jam on a puffed garlic chip.—
Miguel Otárola,
The Denver Post,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Disk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disk. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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