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On the other end of the spectrum, the platform just acquired distribution rights for a raft of Ringer podcasts, increasing the chances sports fans throw on Netflix rather than YouTube when looking for sports chatter without having to shell out for more exclusive game rights.
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Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Allen has always had a catholic approach to musical style, and that attitude serves the emotional spectrum of West End Girl well, with the stages of relationship grief and personal humiliation echoed by the music surrounding her.
—Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
Gilligan wants to see people from across the partisan spectrum interact face to face, instead of taunting each other online.
—Judy Berman, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Rih’s dalliance with pink travels across the color’s spectrum, from candy tones, to muted neutrals, and splashes of neon, from pajamas to bump-baring hoodies, and jaw-dropping vintage.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025
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Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Allen has always had a catholic approach to musical style, and that attitude serves the emotional spectrum of West End Girl well, with the stages of relationship grief and personal humiliation echoed by the music surrounding her.
—Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
Gilligan wants to see people from across the partisan spectrum interact face to face, instead of taunting each other online.
—Judy Berman, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Rih’s dalliance with pink travels across the color’s spectrum, from candy tones, to muted neutrals, and splashes of neon, from pajamas to bump-baring hoodies, and jaw-dropping vintage.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spectrum
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The Blue Jackets could not solve Capitals goaltender Logan Thompson until midway through the third period, watching several prime scoring chances get erased by Thompson’s glove and others clang off the posts from close range.—
Aaron Portzline,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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The group’s charitable trust claims to have donated funds worth $14 million to help Cambodians in a range of initiatives.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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From Nvidia on track to see half a trillion dollars in revenue to Microsoft’s and Alphabet’s multi-hundred-billion-dollar capital expenditure plans, the scale is unprecedented.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2025
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Indeed, Herbert Saffir, one of the scientists behind the scale, was a structural engineer who focused on wind damage.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
29 Oct. 2025
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But new Silicon Valley companies such as Orchid are taking it one step further, quite literally scraping off genetic material from embryos to allow for a full gamut of embryo comparisons, including disease probabilities but also things like BMI, depression risk, hair color and more.—
Abby McCloskey,
Twin Cities,
29 Oct. 2025
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Despite the lack of change, the 2025 MacBook lost a percentage point or two of gamut reproduction and lower brightness.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Spectrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spectrum. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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