Example Sentences

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"Water autodissociation has been extensively studied in bulk conditions, where it's understood to be energetically uphill and entropically hindered," says Yair Litman, group leader at the Max Planck Institute.

From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2026

Further on in the novel are the boldly redundant “disemelevatored” and the sublime “kipple” — a word for ‘junk’ that encapsulates the stuff’s sinister tendency to multiply entropically.

From Nature • Mar. 6, 2018

The project is a sunnier take on Philip K. Dick’s concept of “kipple”—the useless stuff that accumulates, entropically, in the corners of every room in a consumer society.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2017

In “The Rush to Unlooked-for Sights,” a sled-dog team scatters entropically in all directions, with some assistance from a soaring owl.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2016

As Piatek continues to make donations and trades, and as researchers slice and dice the stones into ever smaller chips, Black Beauty is spreading itself, entropically, across the world.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 25, 2014