valent

• “When in doubt I'll stick with the old French adage: deux précautions valent mieux qu'une: better to be safe than sorry.”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “You might have to shop around for a good price, but "les chaises en valent certainement la peine" (= sure, the chairs are worthwhile).”

  clandestin - French Word-A-Day

• “Life is a complex and multi-valent experience, where nuance and thoughtfulness often get us nearer the truth than do bold assertions.”

  Amateurism, the Internet and Literary Criticism: by Nigel Beale

• “Plusiers sont vieillies, mais Merriam-Webster, The American Heritage Dictionary, The Oxford English Dictionary (quand il (elle?) arrive) et même Wiktionary valent la peine.”

  Unnatural ‘preternaturally’, naturally

• “As one example, I brought up the phenomenon of serotype replacement, which can occur due to the use of what are called “multi-valent vaccines.””

  The Panda's Thumb: Medicine and Evolution Archives

• “Only if we also ban the phrase “highly valent marker of pseudism.””

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method Patents

• “The significance in the futurity of a “we” who learn by asking, however, is of the utmost importance in beginning to understand the multi-valent temporalities of the collectivity in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature.”

  Archive 2007-12-01

• “Working in a poetic that is both multi-valent and articulately human, Degentesh creates a space that casually articulates an anger toward the casualness we use to describe the politically grave – a space that, to paraphrase Baudrillard once more, is more casual than casual.”

  Ryan Fitzpatrick reads Katie Degentesh

• “They ascribe this to the reaction of water with zero-valent aluminum.”

  Rabett Run

• “The latter process appears to be the reaction of H2O plus zero-valent aluminum; this reaction did not proceed to a large extent in the usual desorption tests.”

  Rabett Run

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