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the arrangement of letters, words, etc, on a page in order to achieve legibility or aesthetic appeal
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the arrangement of objects in a space
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Mexico was struggling to adjust to new spacing and speedy Anthony Gordon broke free near the box.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Deschamps identified that the spacing of France's defensive set-up was off and that offensively the players were in zones that didn't best suit many of them.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
The idea is to use cumulative firepower and wide-open spacing to stretch any defense—even one led by the great wall of Wembanyama—until it snaps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
But unlike the tradwife with her gaggle of youngsters underfoot, the orangutan mother sustains this intense caretaking by spacing her kids seven or so years apart.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
Punctuation, together with other graphical indicators such as italics, capitalization, and spacing, developed over the history of printed language to do two things.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
If such arrays can be produced on-demand with any desired spacings, it could greatly improve phonon-polaritons' imaging ability and would be a huge achievement, said Moore.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024
“Undisguised, our individual traits are laid bare,” he wrote in “Private Domain,” “and our shapes, spacings, and timings are established.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
For outdoor use, we recommend the 5mm Wide Angle Conical LED Lights from Christmas Designers, available in warm white, multicolor, or single color in a variety of lengths and bulb spacings.
From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2018
Force-induced destabilization of focal adhesions at defined integrin spacings on nanostructured surfaces.
From Nature ● Dec. 5, 2017
The effect of these different spacings on the size of the seeming home range was also investigated.
From A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas by Martin, Edwin P.
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