action at a distance
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The best winter storm-watching combines lashing rain, high winds, monstrous whitecaps — and a warm and/or safe place to view the action at a distance.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2022
Earlier studies had shown this problem to be mathematically equivalent to the question of spooky action at a distance — also known as quantum entanglement.
From Nature • Jan. 15, 2020
Scientists have captured the first ever image of a phenomenon which Albert Einstein once described as "spooky action at a distance".
From BBC • Jul. 12, 2019
There are many interpretations of quantum theory; in all of them, he said, the world is real, but so in most of them is spooky action at a distance, now enshrined in technology as “entanglement.”
From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2015
Whilst the latter is admittedly the expression of chemiotactic action, and arises by action at a distance of soluble substances on the bone-marrow, lymphocytosis is due to a local stimulation of certain glandular areas.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.
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