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as in sprinkling
a very small amount
there was not a particle of truth in what she said
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as in speck
a very small piece
a particle of cookie fell on the carpet
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Recent Examples of particle
Forward scattering in comets occurs when sunlight is scattered by dust particles in a comet’s tail and coma, causing the comet to appear brighter.
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Joe Rao, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
Portable air cleaners with carbon filters can help remove VOCs and particles.
—Colleen E. Reid, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
Unlike, for example, a ball, which follows the straightforward rules of classical mechanics, electrons behave simultaneously as particles and waves, and their location cannot be exactly defined.
—Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
When pumping was sped up, the water created a vortex in each opening that allowed water, but not particles, through.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2024
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Joe Rao, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
Portable air cleaners with carbon filters can help remove VOCs and particles.
—Colleen E. Reid, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
Unlike, for example, a ball, which follows the straightforward rules of classical mechanics, electrons behave simultaneously as particles and waves, and their location cannot be exactly defined.
—Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
When pumping was sped up, the water created a vortex in each opening that allowed water, but not particles, through.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for particle
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For example, municipal and fire prevention agencies must give property owners advance — and continual — warnings to clear dead vegetation and to wet dry brush within 10 feet of the house with periodic, prolonged sprinklings.Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
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It's got a sprinkling of influence of-without sounding too grandiose-Wes Anderson.Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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The asking price is a speck under $15.5 million, with the listing held by Delaney Fox of Keller Williams Sun Valley Southern Idaho.Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2025
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Murphy’s face is hidden behind the camera whose flash illuminates specks of dust that hang in the air.Carolina A. Miranda, ARTnews.com, 15 Jan. 2025
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Yet there’s a hint that the family may know Sphere and the RSN aren’t good fits.Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 9 Jan. 2025
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So who knows if that’s just sister accounts interacting on social media or a hint to something larger coming down the pipeline in the hair category as well.Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 9 Jan. 2025
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There’s a even bit of Austin Burke’s salesmanship character in Sager, who has plugged the store on The Happy Customer Channel on YouTube or on frequent radio commercials and as a guest on Big 105.9.Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
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Skits are one-joke bits done in grade school or by guys at the Rotary Club.Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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The Padres had already been a team seen as having a shot at Sasaki’s services, and not just because of the team’s recent history of handing out major contracts and making big splashes.C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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The New York Yankees made a huge splash in free agency by signing pitcher Max Fried to a $218 million contract in December.Newsweek, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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And in the very center of the panel, in flat, dark country, in literal no man’s land, is a small, broken vertical line consisting of flecks of white paint.Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
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Coir, a fibrous material made from by-products of coconut husks; it is often used as a substitute for peat. Vermiculite, a fine, puffed, gold flecks mica, which helps with drainage.Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2025
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Art Graffiti, Through Grief and Discovery Clement Gelly There was the glimmer of possibility in stories of bolt cutters and train yards and spray cans—possibilities of disruption and liberation.Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
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May these new releases bring a glimmer of light among the darkness.Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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The process is known as glycation, where sugar molecules attach to collagen, proteins, fats and elastin in the bloodstream to form advanced glycation end products (AGEs).Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2025
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The problem is a set of molecules, furanocoumarins.Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Particle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/particle. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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