as in particle
a very small piece
give me just one atom of information about the novel's surprise ending
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Recent Examples of atom
After all, the wall is not a solid object, it’s made up of discrete atoms.
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Rhett Allain, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2025
Then, when the cosmic clock ticked over to 379,000 years, the universe had cooled sufficiently for the electrons and nuclei to combine and form whole atoms.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025
Key scientists involved in the Manhattan Project, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, built on prior research but did not perform the initial splitting of the atom.
—Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
If Capri were to split that stylish atom, Donatella could easily find backing for a new line.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 Jan. 2025
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Rhett Allain, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2025
Then, when the cosmic clock ticked over to 379,000 years, the universe had cooled sufficiently for the electrons and nuclei to combine and form whole atoms.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025
Key scientists involved in the Manhattan Project, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, built on prior research but did not perform the initial splitting of the atom.
—Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
If Capri were to split that stylish atom, Donatella could easily find backing for a new line.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for atom
Noun
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The particles can pass through any kind of matter and contain information about some of the most energetic events in the universe, such as gamma-ray bursts.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
15 Feb. 2025
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In effect, the particles accelerate by surfing on these waves.—
The Physics arXiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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What sets Friedrich apart from everyone else is that solitary human being and his dual nature: both a tiny speck in the universe and the center of it all.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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One of them shows the moon from a distance—a tiny white speck in a sea of black—and the other captures the lander’s hardware with a view of the moon in the background.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Feb. 2025
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The researchers behind the brain plastics study think the tiny shards of plastic hitch a ride on fat molecules to get inside brain cells.—
Megha Satyanarayana,
Scientific American,
14 Feb. 2025
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Life’s Building Blocks Inside an Asteroid: Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.—
Jason Bittel,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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The song structures melt into goo; the lyrics pelt flecks of raw feeling.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
3 Dec. 2024
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Each light is attached to a green string to easily blend into your tree, and once the lights are turned on, the liquid inside each bulb bubbles to reveal floating flecks of gold glitter to make your tree shine.—
Kaitlin Gates,
Southern Living,
30 Oct. 2024
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One of those rare attacks occurred just two years ago in 2023, when a shark bit a snorkeling American woman.—
Max Saltman,
CNN,
18 Feb. 2025
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Rather than spending years of R&D perpetually reinventing themselves, its creators take what’s worked in their own games, incorporate the best bits of others, and remix the brew over and over.—
Isaiah Colbert,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2025
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The grain, wheat and other commodities that USAID distributes around the world are bought here in America to the tune of about $2 billion a year.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Feb. 2025
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Amaranth Amaranth is an ancient grain that can be served as a side dish or in place of rice.—
Carrie Madormo, RN, MPH,
Verywell Health,
6 Feb. 2025
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Cultural burning on a Juncus patches is usually for weavers.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Eddie Murphy, who once rescued Saturday Night Live during a rough patch in the 1980s, rescued a sketch in the show’s 50th anniversary special with a note-perfect imitation of Tracy Morgan.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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But there are snippets of Epstein’s Jewish story in addition to the synagogue scene.—
Stephen Silver,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Feb. 2025
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Budden and his crew reacted to the snippet on a recent episode of his eponymous podcast.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Atom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atom. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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