How to Use golden mean in a Sentence
golden mean
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In many quantitative traits the 'golden mean' holds true...
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2010-12-07
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There are moderates and there are extremists, and there are those who always seek the golden mean between the two.
—Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 2019-04-10
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Tapping into civic energy in America What could a golden mean in the US look like?
—Elena Souris, Vox, 2018-04-12
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If Bevin strayed too far from the political golden mean, John Bel Edwards never wavered.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 2019-11-23
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Spago today lands squarely in the golden mean of upscale dining: modern but not exactly modernist; elegant but not stuffy; stimulating but rarely thrilling.
—Patricia Escárcega, latimes.com, 2019-06-27
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No one had actually read Hogan’s book, nor anything about Smithson’s creation of the spiral, which some say reflects Fibonacci’s golden mean.
—Anne Slowey, Condé Nast Traveler, 2018-07-25
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The United States and other powers will gradually find the golden mean of network power: not too concentrated and not too distributed.
—Anne-Marie Slaughter, Foreign Affairs, 2016-10-04
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Imitation allows for virtuosity but traduces its source, which is why Dryden champions the golden mean of Paraphrase.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 2020-06-26
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Whereas a crystal can be understood as a motif of atoms repeating with a certain frequency in space, a quasicrystal involves two or more frequencies and their ratio is an irrational number, like the square root of two or the golden mean.
—Quanta Magazine, 2014-06-13
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Most of his neighbors too seem to have found a kind of golden mean between old and new, and peace has broken out on the hillside vineyards of Barolo and Barbaresco, which now enjoy an unprecedented renown, thanks to the King of Barbaresco.
—Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 2016-10-11
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