How to Use neural in a Sentence

neural

adjective
  • She suffers from a neural disorder.
  • Is there not a single neural net out there that can help me?
    — Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And that changes the game for neural rendering.
    — PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Are the same neural circuits at work when a human and a frog both choose the same call?
    — Logan S. James, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Not much is known about the neural basis of our own sense of direction.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The basic neural net that is being trained will have the same structure.
    — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 29 June 2018
  • That speaks to some process in neural development that has gone awry.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Mice with this neural overdrive displayed traits often linked to autism.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The work also marks an exciting new chapter in the use of neural organoids.
    — Allison Whitten, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Several platforms can give new life to your old snaps with the help of neural networks.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 9 Mar. 2021
  • There, the wand can communicate with a neural implant that lies deep in the brain.
    — Rebekah Tuchscherer, Science | AAAS, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Nagel plans to look next for similar neural structures in the brains of crustaceans.
    — Dana MacKenzie, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Brain games are thought to train neural connections, just like working out builds muscle.
    — Jenna Anderson, Health, 26 Aug. 2025
  • For example, the spinal cord starts out as a flat plate of neural tissue, but then rolls up into a tube.
    — ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
  • The neural processing unit inside those chips helps run the software.
    — Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 5 May 2025
  • No one is born with neural circuits for connecting the sounds of speech to squiggles on paper.
    — Sarah Carr, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The model assumes that a neural circuit exists in each body segment along the spinal cord.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Synchron uses a stent-like device placed in a blood vessel to record broad neural patterns.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The links then track the parts of the brain focused on hand and arm movements and records the neural activity.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2021
  • First, digital speed makes signals move in the networks faster than in our neural system.
    — Big Think, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Letter by letter, the neural net, learning from its corpus, would eke out a new sentence.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 6 Oct. 2018
  • Once bathed in a blood supply, the organoid grew and made neural connections with the animal’s brain.
    — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The electrodes allowed the patient to move a cursor on a screen using a neural signal.
    — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 25 Mar. 2022
  • By the time your child reaches adulthood, more than 50 percent of those neural pathways will be gone.
    — Tanika Davis, baltimoresun.com, 12 July 2019
  • The pen-and-paper version adds the neural engagement layer on top.
    — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 27 May 2026
  • As the neural cells released more dopamine, the rate at which other cells absorbed glucose from the rodents’ blood picked up.
    — Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS, 23 May 2018
  • There’s quite a few studies of the neural signature of conformity.
    — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Spinal taps revealed anti-neural antibodies in the spinal fluid of two of the teens.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Neurons tend to group together to form neural tracts, which would be like the streets and highways in the city analogy.
    — Jennifer Robinson, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2024
  • Meanwhile, the neural engine is over three times faster than the original and twice as fast as the M3.
    — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2024

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