How to Use relativity in a Sentence

relativity

noun
  • Those are good enough that an aluminum ion clock did a test of relativity.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Phillips framed the risk with relativity.
    — Shimite Obialo, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • But one of the main challenges with this is a bottleneck from relativity.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • On some level, this lines up nicely with the story of relativity.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 June 2018
  • General relativity says that any object with mass should bend the fabric of space-time.
    — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
  • And as with relativity, researchers can now calculate by how much.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2017
  • But as wonky as the concept of now becomes in relativity, some things — like causality — are preserved.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • With space and time so intimately linked in relativity, any account of how space emerges must also explain time.
    — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • With space and time so intimately linked in relativity, any account of how space emerges must also explain time.
    — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Contrast that to the theory of relativity and its lone, dreamy hero in Einstein.
    — Sam Kean, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Some quantum in your equivalence In relativity, mass and energy are two sides of the same coin.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2018
  • The cardinal rule of relativity is that there’s a speed limit to the Universe, the speed of light, that nothing can break.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 14 Aug. 2025
  • So, Einstein's theory of relativity is safe around the clock.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
  • On an aeroplane; all things Are brought into their deep relativity People.
    — Jonathan Michael Majors, The New Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Games and leagues are built on that engine of relativity, and the NBA is no exception.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The theory of relativity can be expressed in prose, but E=mc² is more succinct.
    — Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Relativity predicted that the mass of the Sun should distort space enough to bend the light arriving from distant stars.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 June 2017
  • Back then, Schroeder said, there was a large margin of error for the relativity new science of carbon dating.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
  • This would be a direct test of Einstein’s theory of relativity.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But the theory of relativity never interested him as much as the game of inches.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Here’s how Ghez’s work confirms Einstein's relativity on a massive scale.
    — Roshan Patel, National Geographic, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The eclipse even helped prove Einstein's theory of relativity.
    — Kate Troll, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Turns out Al, who had his own distinctive brand of disheveled chic, was on to something beyond a mere theory of relativity.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2018
  • Within just a few years, Einstein would publish his theory of relativity and launch an entirely new era of physics.
    — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • But what about the poster on how consciousness can be explained by relativity, which provides a way to unite first-person and third-person frames of reference?
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
  • There is a phenomenon of relativity known as time dilation, in which time appears to slow down almost to a stop for bodies that approach the speed of light.
    — Jerry Adler, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • About now is when someone brings up the theory of relativity, and starts talking about how the past, the future—these are just other points in space-time, as real as the now.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • But for this test, the research team also ran a version where relativity was replaced with a chameleon f(R) version of gravity.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 July 2019
  • General relativity yields the predictions of black holes and the Big Bang at the origin of our universe.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2020
  • While the hound was in relativity good health, his heartworm test came back positive and was subsequently placed on the shelter’s euthanasia list.
    — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 11 May 2018

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