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
  • Still, the pull between East and West does sit at the heart of its singularity, a place between two worlds.
    Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2015
  • Extending the human life span is one of the dreams of the post-singularity world.
    Jules Julien, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • To be the first black artist who was not a black artist, while never not being a black artist: This is to make of yourself a holy singularity.
    Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 24 June 2018
  • 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
  • So is this the end for eternal inflation and the big bang singularity?
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
  • 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
  • So theorists have long sought a way of avoiding that singularity—and losing time would be one way to do that.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
  • And the sisters are great at acknowledging this distinction—the singularity of their lives—for the most part.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • The relative singularity of this study may also be telling in and of itself.
    Jacob Brogan, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017
  • In the traditional view, a star keeps collapsing past the event horizon down to a dot known as a singularity.
    Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
  • Over a menacing synth track, Arcángel compares the singularity of his talents on a mic to Maradona’s on the field.
    Cat Cardenas, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Popovich, for his part, always has scoffed at such notions of his singularity.
    Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 8 May 2021
  • The final result would be a universe that reaches a tiny singularity, a dark reflection of the Big Bang.
    Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
  • In some ways, the singularity of the Covid-19 recession—and the recovery—shouldn’t surprise.
    Shane Shifflett, WSJ, 27 June 2021
  • So, too, does the music of The Internet, in all its cool singularity, suit you, water bearer.
    Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 29 June 2018
  • The black hole at the Page time would suddenly lose its interior, and spacetime would come to an end, not at the singularity deep inside the black hole but right there at the event horizon.
    Ahmed Almheiri, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022

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