http://www.bing.com:80/search?q=Exponentially+DistributedSearch resultshttp://www.bing.com:80/s/a/rsslogo.gifhttp://www.bing.com:80/search?q=Exponentially+DistributedCopyright © 2026 Microsoft. All rights reserved. These XML results may not be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner or for any purpose other than rendering Bing results within an RSS aggregator for your personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of these results requires express written permission from Microsoft Corporation. By accessing this web page or using these results in any manner whatsoever, you agree to be bound by the foregoing restrictions.https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/141739/what-is-a-better-word-for-exponentiallyI often hear news reports of rapidly increasing problems use the word "exponentially" for emphasis. For example, tonight's BBC America World News included a segment on the growing Syrian refugee p...Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:24:00 GMThttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/260297/colloquial-meaning-of-exponential-decreaseThe number of fish in the lake has decreased exponentially over the past couple of years Mathematically this would mean a while ago the decrease was rapid, but rate of decrease has decreased (e−x, left figure), which is a good thing (assuming we want fish in the lake).Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:13:00 GMThttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/326005/alternatives-to-exponentially-biggerOne idiom that grinds my gears is "exponentially bigger" outside of an actual (exponential) trend, e.g. in pairwise comparisons like "A is exponentially bigger than B". What is a good idiom forThu, 02 Apr 2026 00:02:00 GMThttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/14952/that-which-is-measured-improvesThat which is measured and reported improves exponentially." - Karl Pearson "When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates." - Thomas S. Monson A few sources say it was used often at Sun Microsystems but do not attribute it to anyone.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:00:00 GMThttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/65320/with-amount-will-you-use-singular-or-pluralSee what happens with ...large amount of apples and the fact that X will exponentially grow If you said 'they will grow', you'd presumably be referring to the individual apples, but instead you are talking about the -amount- that will grow.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:54:00 GMThttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/109879/is-there-a-word-for-when-a-problems-understood-complexity-grows-exponentially-a4 I will continue to look for a single word to describe "when a problem's understood complexity grows exponentially as you work on it," but I found some phrases that might fit the bill. Hofstadter's Law is defined as: [A task] always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:44:00 GMThttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/365792/single-word-for-something-that-becomes-progressively-harder-to-succeed-atAlthough I don't know the answer, your question evokes another question - "What is a job that gets progressively easier called" ? One possible phrase that comes to my mind (although it stinks of mathematics), is "exponentially difficult/ easy" Meaning of exponential (as given in vocabulary.com) is "Use exponentially when you want to say that something's increasing quickly by large amounts ...Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:03:00 GMThttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/609360/is-there-a-phrase-that-describes-a-problem-that-becomes-more-and-more-complicateI'm looking for a phrase that describes a problem whose complexity starts to increase exponentially, either because the problem is recursive, the definitions/conditions of the problem interlink with themselves, or it turns out that it's connected to a great many other issues, and changing one changes all the others in turn.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:59:00 GMThttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/613991/do-animals-have-genderThe use of both words has exponentially increased over time. The word sex continues to be predominant, but the use of the word gender has immensely grown, recently nearing almost 80% of the same number of publications observed with sex in the title or abstract within the past two decades, shown in Figure 3.Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:24:00 GMThttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/164870/was-vs-had-beenI guess this question has been asked before, but please take a look the following sentence and tell me if there is a difference between them. When the transaction had been completed, A was still aFri, 03 Apr 2026 04:40:00 GMT