How to Use triangulate in a Sentence

triangulate

verb
  • The natural response is to be skeptical, do your own research, triangulate sources, etc.
    — Gautam Mukunda, Twin Cities, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Even if Gauss or another astronomer used a large telescope, triangulating the distances between stars wouldn’t work.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2026
  • The models triangulate spelling variations, dates, and witness statements to restore names to victims once recorded as blank lines.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • One approach compares images from two cameras spaced sufficiently far apart to triangulate the distance to objects.
    — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2021
  • Six cameras create stereoscopic vision—depth perception built from slightly different angles, the way two eyes triangulate a curb.
    — Eric Sullivan, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The pod awaiting pickup communicates with the drone via a set of radio frequency beacons which assists the aircraft in triangulating the pod's position.
    — Ed Garsten, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In this way, the device's onboard software is able to triangulate the diver's current geographical location relative to the buoys.
    — New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Kati did make several attempts to call for help — calls that ultimately helped authorities triangulate the family's whereabouts.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Receivers compare those signals to triangulate position.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • ShotSpotter uses a network of microphones to quickly triangulate the location of potential gunfire.
    — Josh Wood, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Analysts warn credibility has been damaged, and markets should triangulate upcoming reports with private data.
    — Phillip Molnar, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The system even goes beyond the visual by detecting and locating radio signals, displaying the details of any communications in the area and triangulating their location.
    — New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, only a handful of devices—the closest ones—communicate with the anchor, triangulating their position by measuring their distance from the anchor as well as from other nearby devices.
    — Michael Koziol, IEEE Spectrum, 20 June 2018
  • Using a low-energy Bluetooth signal, the card detects devices within the Android or Apple network and then triangulates its location anywhere in the world.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Set in London’s East End in the 1880s, A Thousand Blows triangulates on three figures in the city’s shady underworld.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The optical version of mo-cap uses cameras distributed over a large gridlike structure that surrounds a stage; the video streams from these cameras can be used to triangulate the 3D positions of visual markers on a full-body suit worn by an actor.
    — Casey Weaver, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Aug. 2020
  • These observatories triangulate cosmic radio signals to determine Earth’s orientation in space.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • According to internet wisdom, this is the origin of the meme, including the necessary hand gesture, where you pantomime juggling as if deliberating between the two numbers, trying to triangulate some specific, perhaps divine, structure.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
  • These sonobuoys typically work as part of a larger network, where multiple buoys are deployed over a wide area to create an underwater surveillance grid, allowing operators to triangulate and track submarine movements more accurately, as per reports.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Social content, reviews, visuals and off-site discussions help AI systems triangulate trust and relevance, giving retailers a stronger edge in how AI interprets and presents their products.
    — Tyler Hochman, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • By aggregating the right data features and triangulating multiple points of affirmation, situational certainty grows strong, enabling confident real-time actions that drive business outcomes.
    — Bill Waid, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Radio towers now include direction-finding capabilities for radio signals that allow emergency responders to much more quickly and accurately triangulate the location of a ship in distress, Snyder said.
    — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 2 Nov. 2025
  • According to the report, the agency’s sensors could be supplemented with crowdsourced data from apps; one example is Enigma, which uses algorithms to rate the credibility of people’s sightings and triangulate objects using video recordings.
    — Matthew Hutson, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The standard shot of the set is ingrained in your memory and can be instantly recalled, but try to imagine physically entering that set through a different door and meandering around, without referencing the original image and triangulating where everything is supposed to be.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • CalMatters instead used the Digital Democracy database’s ‘Find your legislators’ tool to triangulate which pork projects are in which lawmakers’ districts from earmarks inserted into SB 105.
    — Wire Report, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • However, Thalund and screenwriter Marianne Lentz imbue the set-up with a fresh 2025 perspective while attuning the material to a very particular Danish frequency in a society perpetually triangulating between child-centric educational approaches, permissiveness and conformity.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Politically, Giuliani instinctively triangulated between President Ronald Reagan and Fiorello La Guardia, the irrepressible Republican-Socialist mayor who fought Tammany Hall corruption in the 1930s and remains a touchstone for mayors to this day.
    — John Avlon, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026
  • By viewing this event, known as both KMT-2024-BLG-0792 and OGLE-2024-BLG-0516, from two different vantage points, the scientists could essentially triangulate its distance from Earth.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2026

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