How to Use polarity in a Sentence

polarity

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  • Magnetic fields with opposite polarities can cancel each other out and make a U-turn, shooting off in a new direction.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Smith wondered, though, about the rigidity of the us and them polarity in Get Out.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 6 July 2018
  • The question is whether the polarity is out of balance—too strong on the negative side of the equation.
    — Tony Swan, Car and Driver, 10 July 2017
  • There is often a polarity between freedom and love when that doesn’t have to be the case.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Blow the polarities right out of the water and return to the original spark that ignited your life force in the first place.
    — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 29 June 2018
  • Scientists have found proof of that in very old rocks that still show signs of the magnetic polarity of their times.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2016
  • The spots in the sun’s northern hemisphere have an opposite polarity to the spots in the southern hemisphere.
    — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Considering how much polarity there is in the country right now, the words seem to ring true.
    — Dina Cheney, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Follow the stripes: Earth’s polarity switches back and forth over time.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
  • This has always been the polarity in space-travel films.
    — Wired, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The average 16/17-year-old is so tightly wound with reversed polarities that the whole joint could blow at any time.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In 2005 Christopher Nolan set out to reverse the polarity of culture.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 19 July 2019
  • This polarity of the realist and the expressionist runs broadly through the genre and the show itself.
    — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The physical world is a world of polarity, of contrast.
    — Melanie Fine, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • But for all that happened in the first nine months of 1968, the Mexico City Games took the sports year to another level of triumph and polarity.
    — Jerry Brewer, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2018
  • The role play, designed to flip that polarity, has forced the white partners to look at color and see it deeply, even at the risk of mortification.
    — New York Times, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Seen on a seafloor map that shows this record, the periods of reversed and normal polarity appear as stripes.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
  • But here, the polarity is reversed, the politics all warped.
    — Sam Schube, GQ, 16 June 2018
  • All that was required was to thread the wires through the holes and carefully solder them into place (making sure to get the polarity correct!).
    — Roy Wood, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2013
  • And that’s just what the parents are doing.‎ The Muschiettis have somehow taken those polarities and doubled down on them.
    — Steven Zeitchik, latimes.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The strength of the dipole governs a process that eventually flips the polarity of the magnetic field, which causes the solar cycle.
    — Javier Barbuzano, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • As all these sunspots form and fizzle, the tiny leftover charges gradually build up at the poles and cancel out their polarity.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The brain sends a signal to the electrocytes, opening ion channels and briefly reversing the polarity.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Nevertheless, there is a tinge of anger that remains in Ray's voice about the state of the world at the moment, a world whose obvious polarity has become quite the burden for many.
    — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The challenge of balancing polarities -- old and new, masculine and feminine, dark and light -- is at the core of their design sense.
    — OregonLive.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Recognizing the polarity present in these moments has been key for me.
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The polarity is clear — customers want to make more money with their suppliers, with less effort.
    — Frederick Daso, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • There was a crazy polarity in terms of audience response.
    — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 6 May 2023
  • The optimization problem is mapped to the strength and polarity of these connections.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The issue is that the charging ports have reversed polarity due to a wiring error, and that can pose an electrical shock hazard to someone trying to use it.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 15 Mar. 2021

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