How to Use polarity in a Sentence
polarity
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Users adjust the polarity of the filter via a thumb wheel on the side of the ActionBox.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 31 July 2024
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Smith wondered, though, about the rigidity of the us and them polarity in Get Out.
—Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 6 July 2018
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The question is whether the polarity is out of balance—too strong on the negative side of the equation.
—Tony Swan, Car and Driver, 10 July 2017
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There is often a polarity between freedom and love when that doesn’t have to be the case.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 19 Jan. 2022
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Blow the polarities right out of the water and return to the original spark that ignited your life force in the first place.
—Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 29 June 2018
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Scientists have found proof of that in very old rocks that still show signs of the magnetic polarity of their times.
—Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2016
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The spots in the sun’s northern hemisphere have an opposite polarity to the spots in the southern hemisphere.
—Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Apr. 2021
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Considering how much polarity there is in the country right now, the words seem to ring true.
—Dina Cheney, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2020
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The lunation doubles as a lunar eclipse in Pisces, the twelfth and last zodiac sign on the wheel and the polarity of Virgo.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
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Follow the stripes: Earth’s polarity switches back and forth over time.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
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This has always been the polarity in space-travel films.
—Wired, 20 Sep. 2019
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The average 16/17-year-old is so tightly wound with reversed polarities that the whole joint could blow at any time.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
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In 2005 Christopher Nolan set out to reverse the polarity of culture.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 19 July 2019
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This polarity of the realist and the expressionist runs broadly through the genre and the show itself.
—Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
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The physical world is a world of polarity, of contrast.
—Melanie Fine, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
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But for all that happened in the first nine months of 1968, the Mexico City Games took the sports year to another level of triumph and polarity.
—Jerry Brewer, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2018
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The role play, designed to flip that polarity, has forced the white partners to look at color and see it deeply, even at the risk of mortification.
—New York Times, 6 Oct. 2019
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And in many ways, Taliesin is where these two polarities mingle.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2024
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Seen on a seafloor map that shows this record, the periods of reversed and normal polarity appear as stripes.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
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But here, the polarity is reversed, the politics all warped.
—Sam Schube, GQ, 16 June 2018
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All that was required was to thread the wires through the holes and carefully solder them into place (making sure to get the polarity correct!).
—Roy Wood, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2013
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And those polarities always make the most fertile soil as an actor.
—Carita Rizzo, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2024
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To change a bit from a 1 to a 0, the head reverses the polarity of the magnetic material in the tiny patch, so that the spins in it point in the opposite direction.
—Pedram Khalili, IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2015
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And that’s just what the parents are doing. The Muschiettis have somehow taken those polarities and doubled down on them.
—Steven Zeitchik, latimes.com, 7 Sep. 2017
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The strength of the dipole governs a process that eventually flips the polarity of the magnetic field, which causes the solar cycle.
—Javier Barbuzano, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
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As all these sunspots form and fizzle, the tiny leftover charges gradually build up at the poles and cancel out their polarity.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
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Shifting polarity of the sun Unable to view our graphics?
—Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2024
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The brain sends a signal to the electrocytes, opening ion channels and briefly reversing the polarity.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
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But a focus on the number of great powers—the polarity of the system—masks qualitative and quantitative differences in the concentration of power in the hands of the great powers.
—Dani K. Nedal, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
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There’s the terrible magnet of this little ordinary town, the people whose natural polarities keep them in it forever, and those who rip themselves away.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
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