How to Use synthesis in a Sentence

synthesis

noun
  • Tour says his simple process grew out of his work on graphene synthesis.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This third eye gives the gift of synthesis, of making meaning.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • This synthesis, in broad strokes, is not unique to al-Gharbi.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Still, his work can start to guide chemists’ further synthesis efforts.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2018
  • Synthesis is due out this fall, along with a tour that will include a full orchestra.
    — Colin Stutz, Billboard, 10 May 2017
  • In fact, this five room B&B is a perfect synthesis of the now and the then.
    — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 30 May 2018
  • This finding, based on my team’s synthesis of six decades of research, may come as a surprise.
    — Lise Eliot, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But together—at least at this stage—the group’s synthesis is ill-defined.
    — Dylan Green, Pitchfork, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Helping reroute protein synthesis from the axon tips to the main cell body to boost regrowth.
    — New Atlas, 13 July 2025
  • Workforces that skip the synthesis and processing steps may do so at their peril.
    — Erin Schumaker, ABC News, 5 July 2021
  • Not to mention, in its current nascent state, speech synthesis could open a big ethical can of worms.
    — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Voice cloning and synthesis technology has made massive strides in the past three years.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
  • The more protein your body stores—in a process called protein synthesis—the larger your muscles grow.
    — Jake Boly, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
  • That synthesis is already visible in his next projects.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2026
  • For me, the synthesis of these worlds into my identity was seamless.
    — Sharad Devarajan, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
  • Among money-courses, the best synthesis to date is found at Reforge.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • This design synthesis works right down to the simple yet comfortable strap.
    — Thor Svaboe, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Another member of his lab left to take a job at a Chinese gene synthesis firm.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 8 May 2025
  • The thesis of love always fights the antithesis of hate, but there is never a synthesis that joins the two.
    — Carlos Valladares, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The path out of the lab likely won’t be a choice between better code or better hardware, but a synthesis.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025
  • That takes time, as does the education of two big-minute rookies and the synthesis of what is a young team, through and through.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2017
  • To replicate, viruses need to suppress the genes of the host cell and instead favor synthesis of their own.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Sometimes the synthesis is a long time coming—as has been the case with race in America.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • The books contain extensive notes on the drugs’ synthesis and effects.
    — Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Among those genes are ones involved in translation, the synthesis of proteins — a finding that came as a shock.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2018
  • To dock there, to transform into a synthesis of You+Insight.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Statins work by blocking an enzyme involved in cholesterol synthesis.
    — Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This left them with no data on how, if at all, the synthesis of the female chemical cues changes across her lifecycle.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Even a brief summary of the ruling is hard to provide; the court’s own synthesis of its conclusions is five pages long.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2021
  • In the end, the book’s merits lie not in the depth of its analysis but in its breadth of synthesis and quotable lucidity.
    — Matthew Hutson, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021

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