How to Use singularity in a Sentence

singularity

noun
  • People could not understand the singularity of his imagination.
  • Part of the grief and joy of life is the singularity of it.
    WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • At the center of every black hole is a singularity: a point where time and space break down.
    Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • The circumference of the circle is the event horizon, and the dot is the singularity.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2019
  • If the spin slows down, the whole thing will be rapidly crunched into a singularity.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
  • This shows that the Dirac point is a singularity—a place where physics is uncertain.
    Charles D. Brown Ii, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • Findikoglu has the potential to be a Rick Owens or Paul Harnden in the depth and singularity of her world.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The story of how one astronomer, Katie Bouman, became the face of the quest to visualize the singularity, was a good yarn, too.
    New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019
  • The beauty of Judge’s home run chase is its singularity.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Jet setter No one really knows what, if anything, is at the core of a black hole, called the singularity.
    National Geographic, 10 Apr. 2019
  • There is no learning that bridges the before and after of a singularity.
    Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Crossroads is a testament not to the singularity of the ’70s but to the decade’s continuity with our own.
    Becca Rothfeld, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2021
  • For a black hole, the singularity sits in a precise position in space.
    Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The current moment seems to reify rightness and a singularity of view.
    Liz Appel, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
  • At a singularity, spacetime seems to bend to a breaking point.
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020
  • But the singularity of this quartet — the fact that Bernstein never returned to the form, does fire up the imagination.
    Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Popovich, for his part, always has scoffed at such notions of his singularity.
    Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 8 May 2021
  • In some ways, the singularity of the Covid-19 recession—and the recovery—shouldn’t surprise.
    Shane Shifflett, WSJ, 27 June 2021
  • And because such a universe doesn’t have a beginning, there’s no big bang and no singularity.
    James Riordon, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
  • Graham suspects that the singularity of the bond between a parent and a young child gets lost in the overwhelm and monotony of living it every moment of every day.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • An idea of singularity, an idea of clarity and perfection and heading for the sky.
    Faith Salie, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Space travel is uncertain, and the singularity is a mirage, so why not stay here, nestled into the cool damp ground.
    Kelly Pendergrast, WIRED, 14 July 2023
  • And less esprit, less a feeling of singularity, of lore and tradition, less pride.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 20 May 2021
  • So the work stuff has more of a collective impact than a singularity of authorship.
    New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Danhausen occupies a point of singularity in the manifold of artifice and truth that is the pro-wrestling universe: the place where the story and the show and the business intersect.
    Dan Brooks, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • But the researchers found that such events in our universe do not produce the same result—a collision always ends with the singularity still wrapped inside a black hole.
    Brendan Z. Foster, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2021
  • In the singularity point, more digital bits will be created than atoms on the planet.
    Fox News, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The only stable reference point in the debate was the singularity that is Adele, looking snatched and a bit silly in her Bantu knots and tie-dye leggings.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2020
  • At the center of every black hole, astronomers believe, a singularity of this sort resides.
    Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2019
  • That’s a true singularity, and the forcing functions can’t help you in that situation.
    Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023

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