How to Use macroscopic in a Sentence

macroscopic

adjective
  • There are ways to stay quantum even at a macroscopic scale.
    — Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2025
  • What is true at the microscopic level was not thought to be true at the macroscopic level.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • With such slight masses, their quantum wave nature would manifest at macroscopic scales.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Their goal is to push quantum mechanics further into the macroscopic world.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • But both macroscopic and microscopic damage can be healed.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The consequences of this crisis will, on a macroscopic scale, upend where and how humans can survive.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The reframing toward mental wealth nudges us toward a macroscopic scale.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • That doesn’t really happen in our everyday macroscopic world.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • At the macroscopic scale, how long an object takes to go from A to B is simply the distance divided by the object’s speed.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Our brains evolved according to selection pressures that involved only macroscopic objects like fruit, tigers and trees.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2011
  • And some macroscopic signatures of the theory that might have been seen, such as cosmic strings and supersymmetry, have not shown up.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2017
  • For the first time, the trio observed distinct quantum behaviors of a macroscopic physical variable.
    — Zhixin Wang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
  • There, the trio tinkered with ultracold electronics to show that unruly quantum effects could be made macroscopic and controlled.
    — Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The geometry of the small dimensions determines the properties of strings and thus the macroscopic world.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
  • However, at the macroscopic level, the weird quantum effects are relatively weak and hard to perceive.
    — Peter Jakubowicz, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The solutions show how effective their new building block can be at modeling the behavior of matter from the micro to macroscopic scale.
    — Tim Childers, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Furthermore, collapse models say that a real macroscopic friend cannot be manipulated as a quantum system in the first place.
    — Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2020
  • For some dietary diversity, other teams have their sights set on using larger, macroscopic organisms.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 12 June 2023
  • Still, there remains disagreement among researchers about whether macroscopic, agent-level causation can emerge in complex systems.
    — Philip Ball, WIRED, 21 July 2024
  • So, although macroscopic experience doesn’t behave that way, the microscopic laws do behave that way.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Two new papers published on Thursday in Science push the boundaries of the quantum effects physicists can achieve at a macroscopic scale.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 May 2021
  • Several of the macroscopic pictures use lenticular printing to achieve a 3-D effect.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
  • These electron pairs condense into a macroscopic state, which can be described by a collective phase variable shared by all its microscopic constituents.
    — Zhixin Wang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
  • And second, the charge carrier density of undoped, macroscopic graphene sheets is relatively low.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The answer lies essentially in the definition of a macroscopic object.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2011
  • The idea is that dark matter, rather than being composed of elementary particles, is actually made up of macroscopic clumps of matter.
    — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2021
  • Mabuchi is skeptical that any macroscopic life-size technology would ever behave in a way that’s quantum mechanical.
    — Peter Jakubowicz, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Quantum theory allows tiny things like atoms or photons to be in two places at once, but nobody has ever seen such behavior in a macroscopic material object.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Mar. 2018
  • One of the most striking things about modern physics is the stark divide between the macroscopic and quantum worlds, each of which seems to be governed by entirely different physical laws.
    — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Many of these questions concern mathematical structures that have a phase transition — a sudden macroscopic change, like ice melting to water.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023

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