How to Use multiplicative in a Sentence
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Look at both the number of ways to factor the first three perfect numbers, as well as the small number in each of those multiplicative examples.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 24 June 2021
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This is sort of the most important example of a multiplicative function.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 July 2017
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One exploding head makes for great television, but the effect is not multiplicative: A roomful of exploding heads is just a mess.
—Jason Kehe, Wired, 16 Oct. 2020
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Put more generally, the conjecture says that the additive and multiplicative properties of a set of numbers somehow force each other to behave in a certain way.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Feb. 2019
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And Taleb teaches us not to equate thin-tailed events that affect individuals (people drowning in their bathtubs) with multiplicative risks, like Ebola epidemics, that can have a systemic impact.
—Glenn C. Altschuler, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
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The dazzling array of new products means that innovation is multiplicative and not additive for economic growth.
—Philip Cross, National Review, 30 Dec. 2020
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Since that stimulus has multiplicative effects on businesses and total output, the AHCA slashes state outputs by amounts far greater than the amount of federal funds divested.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 17 June 2017
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Despite the generational gap, the affinity between Aretha Franklin and Jennifer Hudson is multiplicative.
—Rodney Ho, ajc, 11 Aug. 2021
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Moreover, the distributions often appeared to be what’s called lognormal, which can happen, for example, when the numbers being plotted are the result of multiplicative processes rather than additive ones.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
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Such interventions work together in a synergistic way and the benefits are multiplicative.
—John Drake, Forbes, 21 May 2021
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Education has so many multiplicative impacts on a student’s life, ensuring that every single student gets a quality education is critical to community and long-term recovery.
—oregonlive, 12 May 2020
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February also saw the announcement that the unit conjecture is false, meaning that multiplicative inverses actually exist in more complicated structures than mathematicians thought.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 Dec. 2021
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Within a broad family of algebraic structures, which elements have multiplicative inverses?
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Apr. 2021
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