sheaf

as in loads
a considerable amount contends that casino gambling would generate a sheaf of social problems for the state

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Recent Examples of sheaf Athletic competitions entice, excite Stone put, caber toss, hammer throw, sheaf toss and weight throw competitions are sure to entertain as shows of strength. Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024 In the 1980s, a mathematician posed a geometric version of one of the program’s key components — the geometric Langlands conjecture, which involves esoteric mathematical objects called sheaves. Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024 Early song-sharking companies in the 1910s merely set customers’ lyrics to sheet music and mailed the sheaves to the customer as a collector’s item. Luke Savage, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024 The link to conformal field theory gave Beilinson and Drinfeld a place to start thinking about how to build a version of Fourier analysis for sheaves. Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 19 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for sheaf
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Noun
  • That seems like a ton to pay a guy who did not even start on his own team last year.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The multi-use design offers tons of functional space, including three shelves,10 bottle holders, two towel rack holders, and a stemware rack.
    Megan Schaltegger, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Alongside the new handsets, Xiaomi showed off a slew of other devices.
    Simon Hill, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The bottom half featured a slew of interesting results.
    Todd Boss, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • He's written dozens of profiles of entrepreneurs across a variety of fields and done deep dives into technological trends from superconductors to space travel to pharmaceuticals.
    Alex Knapp, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket has launched dozens of high-value payloads for NASA, and this launch was no different.
    Brett Tingley, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Walmart's push shows how rising geopolitical tensions are set to reshape global supply chains and pile pressure on U.S. consumers already grappling with cost-of-living stresses.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The trestle will require the installation of some 1,200 36-inch steel piles covering an area of 400,000 square feet with the top of the pile being 10 feet above the Patapsco’s mean high-water line, according to the Army Corps.
    Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The series is about two sisters, but for the first half of the season, even by splitting the narrative into a bunch of flashbacks, Long Bright River can’t find a way to make that relationship rise to the surface.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Setting up a solar mirror has to be -- and in real life absolutely would be -- as interesting as fighting a bunch of orcs in a room.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Carter also voided leases of large chunks of the campus to UCLA and the private Brentwood School.
    Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Miami relied on its press-zone defense for a large chunk of the game.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • According to Antenna, in the first six months, over 20% of new Max customers had subscribed to the bundle.
    Brad Adgate, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • To fully outfit your sleep sanctuary, pillows, bedding, and bundles are discounted, too.
    Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 9 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Under Trump's flip-flopping raft of tariffs, Washington placed a 10 percent tariff on Canadian energy, the major supplier to U.S. states hugging the northern border.
    William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Signs for how Beijing plans to address these challenges will also be closely watched, after a raft of policy adjustments since last summer were seen as falling short.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025

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

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