How to Use synthesize in a Sentence

synthesize

verb
  • Amino acid is synthesized in the body.
  • He synthesized old and new ideas to form his theory.
  • She synthesized the treatment from traditional and modern philosophies of medicine.
  • This is what the stack of four dyes synthesized in Würzburg looks like.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
  • This is where ideas synthesize and feelings arise.
    — Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Time, 10 Jan. 2026
  • It was made in a lab and was easy to synthesize from a few ingredients.
    — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • So synthesizing a whole gene will still likely take the better part of a day.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 18 June 2018
  • His team was the first to devise a method to synthesize the vitamin folic acid.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 5 June 2018
  • The more melanin skin has, the less vitamin D the body can synthesize from the sun.
    — Brittany Lubeck, Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Loraine James, meanwhile, found a way to synthesize both states of mind.
    — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2021
  • Our greatest challenge was to synthesize all this in an 80-minute film.
    — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 7 June 2025
  • It is sold in its leaf form and in a more concentrated and lethal lab synthesized version.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2026
  • They cannot be synthesized or sublated.
    — Roy Scranton august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Drugs are either synthesized or take a natural product and change it in some way.
    — Will Price, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2025
  • But birds, like all vertebrates, can’t synthesize carotenoid pigments on their own.
    — David Toews, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Hyaluronic acid can be derived from plant sources like bacteria or synthesized in a lab.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Then synthesize that, turn it into something that works as a drug, then start giving it to people.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 5 Apr. 2020
  • The trick is to use data from the brain to synthesize speech in real time so users can practice and the machine can learn.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Tryptophan is an amino acid from which the sleep hormone melatonin is synthesized.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2026
  • But the issue extends to the way insights are gathered and synthesized.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Between one and two grams can be synthesized by the liver, kidneys, and pancreas, but the rest needs to come from food.
    — Devinder Bains, Glamour, 16 May 2025
  • His own lab is trying to develop a clean process to synthesize nitrogen from the air.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2022
  • Lactic acid is the most gentle of the three because mammals can synthesize it in our muscles.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • So the hardest thing to do is to synthesize something — to summarize it in a sentence.
    — Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The key is to synthesize these components to construct the narrative of your life.
    — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Bar-Tal and co have come up with a different approach that synthesizes the entire video at the same time.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The goal of this team’s work wasn’t to reintroduce poliovirus into the wild, but to learn how to synthesize viruses.
    — Amy Webb, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Decades ago, humans learned to sequence and synthesize DNA—that is, to read and write it.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Value resides less in knowing a single thing deeply and more in knowing how to synthesize broadly.
    — Big Think, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Depending on your point of view, the fact that vanillin is relatively easy to synthesize is either a good thing or a bad thing.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 21 Jan. 2022

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