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Recent Examples of disk
According to reports, The Dallas Mavericks (20-15) will be without guard Kyrie Irving for one to two weeks as the star point guard recovers from a bulging disk in his back.
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Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Jan. 2025
Asteroids are kind of like crumbs left over from the disk of dust and gas that formed the Sun, planets and moons 4.5 billion years ago.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2025
The ice disks spotted along the river aren’t a new weather pattern.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2025
The Wolin disk, dated to the end of the first half of the 11th century, has concentric rings similar to the pyrophyllite disks.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025
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Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Jan. 2025
Asteroids are kind of like crumbs left over from the disk of dust and gas that formed the Sun, planets and moons 4.5 billion years ago.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2025
The ice disks spotted along the river aren’t a new weather pattern.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2025
The Wolin disk, dated to the end of the first half of the 11th century, has concentric rings similar to the pyrophyllite disks.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disk
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These worms have long white tentacles and live in tubes made of coral fragments.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
14 Feb. 2025
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Today, their bones are few and far between, found typically in isolation and in fragments.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
12 Feb. 2025
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Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.—
Vogue Club,
Vogue,
25 Feb. 2025
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Architectural Digest may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.—
Erika Owen,
Architectural Digest,
25 Feb. 2025
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Paramount will also take up a section of the townhouse to fête Gladiator II’s three nods as will Black Bear for the aforementioned Conclave and Sing Sing.—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
15 Feb. 2025
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In the Rocky Mountains, skiers eager for the long Presidents' Day weekend are already facing a closure on a section of Interstate 70 due to snow as officials warn of hazardous conditions on the mountain roads over the weekend.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Feb. 2025
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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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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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Overall, cadaver brain samples contained seven to 30 times more tiny shards of plastic than their kidneys and liver, said co-lead study author Matthew Campen, Regents’ Professor and professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN,
3 Feb. 2025
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Niemelä never looked the part of an NHL defenceman, but maybe there’s a team that still sees a sliver of hope.—
Jonas Siegel,
The Athletic,
22 Feb. 2025
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In fact, photographers only caught a sliver of her platform shoes outside of the after-party, though Vanity Fair captured them in their full glory in an Instagram video from the red carpet.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
17 Feb. 2025
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Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as to be seemingly uncountable—no two, we were told, are exactly alike.—
Chris Wiley,
The New Yorker,
15 Feb. 2025
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Large flakes fell at a lively rate and in a few hours the snow was three inches deep.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Near-field communication chips are small silicon chips that enable wireless communication between two electronic devices.—
Jackie Berardo,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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While these chips have become increasingly powerful and simultaneously smaller, there is a physical limit to the amount of information that can be stored on this hardware.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Disk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disk. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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