AdjectiveI do know that shoot-'em-ups (and saw-'em-ups) are likely to remain part of our lives, and that suggests a depressing idea: Maybe the love of violence is an integral part of human nature … Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Oct. 2007Stuffed with peanut butter, celery is the quintessential after-school snack; diced, it provides an essential crunch to chicken and potato salads; buttered up, it is an integral part of Thanksgiving stuffing. Sara Dickerman, New York Times Magazine, 3 Sept. 2006Sitting out on the grass … watching the freight trains roll by on the levee at two in the morning, drinking a beer and listening to the music drifting out of the club, is an integral part of the whole experience. Tom Piazza, Why New Orleans Matters, 2005 She had become an integral part of their lives. a car dealer respected for his integral honesty and straightforwardness with customers NounThe main tools used in the study of these functions are those we have already discussed: representation as integrals, power-series expansions, and differential equations. Robert S. Strichartz, The Way of Analysis, 2000See More
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Second, water has two integral components needed for rocket fuel – oxygen and hydrogen. Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2022 Something integral in that treatment plan was blood transfusions. Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 1 Sep. 2022 Indeed, the issues go far beyond Mass. General to many teaching hospitals where surgeons in training are integral contributors to the surgical team.BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022 Both Hoover Dam and Lake Mead are integral components of the complex system that divides and allocates the Colorado River. Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2022 All-American has moved to left guard, giving him an even more integral role in an Irish run game that ranked only 72nd nationally last season in yards per carry. Nathan Baird, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2022 An integral tether of AfroLatinx Travel, which puts on tours from Panama to Puerto Rico, is education. Marjua Estevez, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2022 These prove more distracting than integral to the full stage picture and act to deflect attention from Ms. Lang’s choreography. Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022 While Green Bay head coach Matt LaFleur issued caution — and the players would only do individual drills for now — this is a major step back to the field for a trio that figures to have integral roles on offense. Rob Reischel, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
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The path integral is a way of describing a particle's travels in terms of a quantum superposition of all possible routes. Ahmed Almheiri, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2022 However, the real winners are the individuals, creators and brands making this integral to their business model(s). Nathaniel Hunter, Forbes, 15 July 2022 Both Croot and Bloom broke the integral into parts and proved that one main term was large and positive, and that all the other terms (which could sometimes be negative) were too small to make a meaningful difference.Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2022 The path integral is more of a physics philosophy than an exact mathematical recipe. Charlie Wood, Wired, 4 July 2021 The path integral is more of a physics philosophy than an exact mathematical recipe. Charlie Wood, Wired, 4 July 2021 The path integral is more of a physics philosophy than an exact mathematical recipe. Charlie Wood, Wired, 4 July 2021 The path integral is more of a physics philosophy than an exact mathematical recipe. Charlie Wood, Wired, 4 July 2021 The path integral is more of a physics philosophy than an exact mathematical recipe. Charlie Wood, Wired, 4 July 2021 See More