How to Use synthesize in a Sentence

synthesize

verb
  • Amino acid is synthesized in the body.
  • He synthesized old and new ideas to form his theory.
  • She synthesized the treatment from traditional and modern philosophies of medicine.
  • Decades ago, humans learned to sequence and synthesize DNA—that is, to read and write it.
    IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The trick is to use data from the brain to synthesize speech in real time so users can practice and the machine can learn.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 9 Nov. 2021
  • It was made in a lab and was easy to synthesize from a few ingredients.
    Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • So synthesizing a whole gene will still likely take the better part of a day.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 18 June 2018
  • The ability to synthesize DNA has been around since the early 1980s.
    Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 11 May 2023
  • Loraine James, meanwhile, found a way to synthesize both states of mind.
    Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2021
  • Bar-Tal and co have come up with a different approach that synthesizes the entire video at the same time.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The goal of this team’s work wasn’t to reintroduce poliovirus into the wild, but to learn how to synthesize viruses.
    Amy Webb, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Yaghi and his colleagues synthesized the first MOF in 1995, and chemists have created tens of thousands of the structures since.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But the issue extends to the way insights are gathered and synthesized.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Yet this was a chance to learn, to grow, to study elements of the international game and synthesize them with the Cubs’ style.
    Eric Sondheimer columnist follow, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • So the hardest thing to do is to synthesize something — to summarize it in a sentence.
    Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Taj Mahal was way ahead of the game in synthesizing strands of music from around the world into his own approach.
    John Adamian, courant.com, 12 July 2019
  • Lactic acid is the most gentle of the three because mammals can synthesize it in our muscles.
    Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Vitamin D is synthesized in skin when it's exposed to UVB wavelengths from the sun.
    Lisa Drayer, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Then synthesize that, turn it into something that works as a drug, then start giving it to people.
    Wired Staff, Wired, 5 Apr. 2020
  • His own lab is trying to develop a clean process to synthesize nitrogen from the air.
    New York Times, 17 June 2022
  • That builds up to high school, where students start to synthesize solutions in the classroom, Quincy said.
    Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 19 May 2022
  • Depending on your point of view, the fact that vanillin is relatively easy to synthesize is either a good thing or a bad thing.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 21 Jan. 2022
  • This technique, developed in the 1980s, uses the ability of DNA polymerase chains to synthesize new strands and make billions of copies of the sequences that are unique to the virus.
    Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The history of poppers Amyl nitrite was first synthesized more than 150 years ago.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
  • Then, a neural network synthesizes a 3-D model on each frame, and this model is rendered in VR.
    Victor Erukhimov, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Scientists had competed to find a way to produce it from scratch, but Julian found a way to synthesize it.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Noradrenaline is synthesized in the body from dopamine, which in turn is metabolized from L-dopa.
    Denise Gellene, New York Times, 1 July 2018
  • Hyaluronic acid can be derived from plant sources like bacteria or synthesized in a lab.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Fabric scraps, the netting from bags that may have once held tangerines—all this stuff Jackson synthesized into a whole that owes nothing to Rauschenberg’s assemblages or to the Arte Povera movement but grew out of the art of making do.
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • In 1959, an ambitious chemist named Dr. Paul Janssen first synthesized the pain reliever known as fentanyl while tinkering with the chemical structure of morphine.
    Ryan Hampton, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024

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