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adjective

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Recent Examples of ambient
Adjective
For a staggering scene in which Tóth and his patron, Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), visit a marble quarry in Carrara, Italy, Blumberg went to a valley to record ambient sound and later applied it to a saxophone part played by soloist Evan Parker. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025 The ambient sound controls only amplify the static. PCMAG, 26 Feb. 2025 Virus Power With one of the lowest heat exchange coefficients, the suit shields the rider from burns during a long slide in addition to keeping out ambient heat. New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025 The bottom portion holds the spotlight, an image sensor that captures video at 1080p with a 130-degree field of view, a passive infrared (PIR) motion sensor, an ambient light sensor, and a power LED. PCMAG, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ambient
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ambient
Noun
  • The broader market environment favors this separation, with Middleby RemainCo aiming to capitalize on the increasing adoption of automation, ventless kitchens, and digitalized food service operations.
    Joe Cornell, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Our goal is to get toxins out of our environment, poisons out of our food supply, and keep our children healthy and strong.
    CBS News, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Later, the New York Post reported, she was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury, a brain bleed, partial paralysis and loss of peripheral vision on her right side.
    Debra J. Saunders, Orange County Register, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Waldock said the helicopter pilots, with their night vision goggles interfering with their peripheral vision, may have wrongly focused on a plane that took off just before the collision.
    Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The stock has made a marginal new high and has now traced out a pair of lower highs.
    Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • California remained nearly the same, with a marginal change from 83,003 to 83,032 (+29), and New York showed a slight decrease from 69,048 to 69,002 (-46).
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Serving many different customers The advantages of such a platform include superior image quality, less congested orbits, and natural debris removal as inoperable satellites are pulled down into Earth's atmosphere and burnt up.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Fewer people on the slopes is also a huge bonus for skiers and the mountain atmosphere is much more relaxed.
    Roger Sands, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • There are implications that the two central fathers of the piece have clashed before, though the more jarring examples of tangential threads concern a performing troupe with whom Tornado has a pre-existing relationship.
    Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Is that a fair, if perhaps tangential, limning of this sinister quality that your poems sometimes have?
    Corey Seymour, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • So despite the climate of the world, because the climate is always going to change.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Trump’s executive order promoting timber production, meanwhile, would be devastating for the climate, critics say.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Another new trick is the ability to add Bose's Ultra Open Earbuds for personalized surround, which creates an almost AR effect.
    Ryan Waniata, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Its sound quality is superb, with deep bass and crisp, clear vocals, and the DTS Headphone:X surround tech adds a lot to the experience.
    Shubham Yewale, PCMAG, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The slope, or steepness, of the tangent line measures how quickly the function is changing at that point.
    Solomon Adams, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2025
  • By 1643, René Descartes had discovered a simple relationship between the curvatures of any four circles that are tangent to each other.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023

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“Ambient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambient. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.

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