wavelet

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of wavelet Pipe those wavelets of foie gras feculence over to neighboring Surfside, a two-bathroom kind of town with waste pipes galore. — Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025 Its wavelets lap enticingly at our feet, but the breaker that might truly knock the breath out of us never comes. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025 For example, complex analysis is used to manipulate wavelets, or small oscillations in data. — William Ross, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025 And importantly, the agency says, despite these wavelets of illness, severe outcomes like hospitalizations and deaths have been dropping since 2020 and 2021. — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024 Some of these gravity waves were caused by air flowing from the northwest over the Appalachians and Alleghenies, which caused downstream wavelets, like ripples downstream of stone in a river. — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023 Now a little rill of wavelets across the surface of the flood was the only thing that marked the river’s usual borders. — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wavelet
Noun
  • The brown trout of a lifetime that just sipped your fly can shoot down a riffle and bust that delicate 6-pound tippet.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2025
  • Tanks and soldiers with riffles have lined the streets of the Paraguayan capital all week.
    — Samindra Kunti, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • For a decade, hundreds of Black women and girls have gathered in Kansas City wearing curls, coils, locs, braids and Afros for an annual photograph intended to challenge narrow ideas about what beautiful hair is supposed to look like.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Underneath, Nicks let her natural curls run wild, cascading down her back and shoulders.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The ultimate depuffing hack, an ice roller, can take you from puffed out to sculpted.
    — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Read More The Deebot X8 Pro Omni is an excellent roller mopping bot that extends to clean along backboards and furniture.
    — Brad Bourque, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • In the scope was one of the many tiny fish bones that were found that day, probably belonging to a small comber or a wrasse.
    — Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The destructive combers continued to undermine dwellings near the water’s edge at West Newport Beach.
    — Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Pricing and Valuation calculations in particular can’t simply be rerun after the fact; if the feed supplying them lags or drops a field during a cutover, the ripple shows up in financial statements, not a support ticket.
    — Sanchet Pachpute, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of annual two-way trade between the two northern neighbors.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

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“Wavelet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wavelet. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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