saturation

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Recent Examples of saturation This over-saturation can appear in a few different ways. Ryley Amond, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026 But prospective entrepreneurs need to practice caution when launching a side hustle, as experts warn against chasing trends without fully understanding margin pressure, saturation or operational complexity. Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026 On the other hand, combat lasers have to handle live saturation attacks that are the complete opposite of controlled. New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2026 During the hearing, testimony included concerns about market saturation and business competition - but those factors are not part of the legal standard that the council must apply. Tori Mason, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for saturation
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Noun
  • Internally, Costco has kept a formal diversity office and program in place, even as management remains predominantly white—a contrast the company acknowledges while pledging to keep pushing toward its DEI goals.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • This, in stark contrast to a time when most designers developed each body part as a separate element of a traditional three-box design.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The Kickstarter campaign is also offering a slightly less capable model that's ticks all of the above boxes except for brightness, which comes in at 2,600 ISO lumens for the Pro variant.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Giving the camera longer exposure increases brightness but may reduce definition if the aurora is active.
    Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Knowing elements like hue, value, chroma, and whether a color is warm or cool can all guide you towards picking hues that feel good in your space.
    Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The hunter green of the 1980s is back—but with a little less chroma.
    Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Trump has instead argued for protecting existing owners who have watched the values of their homes climb.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026
  • This is why sports retain the rare commercial value as live programming.
    Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Rather than allowing its typical lightness, Benning layers their brushstrokes purposefully so as to establish new kinds of relationships, both pictorial and material.
    Alex Bacon, Artforum, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Instead, there's a certain lightness to February's feels.
    Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 8 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In our testing, the Cintiq Pro 17 covered 100% of the sRGB space (which is very similar to Rec. 709) and 98.1% of DCI-P3 (see the chromaticity chart above).
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Validation experiments to mimic lighting, display and sensing applications demonstrated that chromaticity, a measure of colorfulness separate from brightness, could be controlled with much more precision than the human eye can detect.
    MEERI KIM | INSIDE SCIENCE, ABC News, 11 July 2021

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“Saturation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saturation. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.

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