How to Use exponent in a Sentence

exponent

noun

• She has become one of America's foremost exponents of the romantic style in interior design.
• The difference with modern man is that the exponent for the last two comes from 1 to ∞.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2010
• So, instead of trying to increase the exponent, why not try to change the base?
  — Urbasi Sinha, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2020
• The groups Sun’s algorithm works for are called p-groups of class 2 and exponent p.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2023
• The exponents of myth seemed to shout from every street corner.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• What’s interesting is the size of the exponent, which is greater than one.
  — Jonah Lehrer, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2011
• The plots rule out CFTs with critical exponents that lie outside the area bounded by the curves.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2017
• Archer, one of the most exciting exponents of fast bowling of the game, has the potential to be one of the best England has ever had.
  — James Masters, CNN, 15 July 2019
• The most high-profile exponent of the tradition, in England, is Klopp.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
• This format represents numbers using some of the bits for the exponent, some for the mantissa, and one for the sign.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Ms. Stemme said, a bit ruefully, of passing up that chance at the part, and at studying it with one of its classic exponents.
  — Michael Cooper, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2016
• Perhaps the greatest exponent of this idea was Richard Parry-Jones.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2022
• And finally, Self is the exponent that can turbocharge – or stymie – the first two elements.
  — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• These solutions are complex numbers, and they are referred to by the number in the exponent.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 May 2021
• The vast majority of numbers fail the even-exponent test.
  — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• He was seen as both the single best exponent of Thatcherism and as a potential successor to the prime minister.
  — John O'Sullivan, National Review, 24 Dec. 2020
• Bombino — is the leading exponent of the blues and rock simpatico trance music sound of the Tuareg people of Northern Africa.
  — Philly.com, 5 July 2018
• These artists were exponents of what would later be termed, in the West, an art of institutional critique.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• Daniil Trifonov’s Perspectives series goes from strength to strength with this recital, and sees him paired with one of our leading exponents of song.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• The new Asian street food and music experience pairs the flavors of Asia with rock ’n’ roll, highlighting Broward exponents of the cuisine.
  — Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
• One major thrust has been to figure out where systems’ scaling exponents come from.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2019
• San Diego, land of warm winters and chill attitude, has become an exponent of Bully Ball.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
• Bennett is also a leading exponent of the harp guitar and will be playing the harp guitar and offering CDs of his music for sale.
  — Courant Community, 24 Oct. 2017
• Over the Constitution is, again, very much of a piece with Jaffa’s career as an exponent of the philosophy of human rights.
  — Mike Potemra, National Review, 4 July 2019
• This analysis vindicates Schmitt as the truest exponent of right-wing thinking.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 31 May 2017
• Bourne mentions Scott Sumner as the most prominent exponent of this view.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
• The Spanish singer-songwriter Niña Pastori — and one of the greatest exponents of flamenco — launches her new album Camino this wekk.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2023
• The most prominent exponent is Robinhood, a six-year-old Silicon Valley startup, which boasts 6m clients and charges nothing for trades.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
• There’s no sense in writing off a vast, rewarding, uniquely American art form because of its worst exponents.
  — Theodore Kupfer, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
• Particular values in these equations have certain exponents, like the 2 in x2.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024