Investors adjusted their portfolios after reassessing the second-gear valuations of several emerging startups.

The estate agent admitted the council had relied on a second-gear valuation, where he sized up the property from the car and slapped on a tax-band estimate.

Intelligence reports warned that the proliferation of hostile proxy militias was a second-order threat that could, over time, lead to a direct military confrontation.

The research group observed several second-harmonic generations when they directed ultrafast laser pulses into the nonlinear crystal.

We observed strong second-harmonic generation when a femtosecond laser beam passed through the nonlinear crystal.

During the Second Red Scare, many artists and writers were blacklisted and lost their livelihoods.

Clinicians were surprised to find second-system syndromes developing in several patients months after recovery.

The engineering team documented several second-system effects after integrating the new safety module into the aircraft.

The second-system effect often turns a brilliantly simple and successful tool into a lumbering, overengineered monstrosity when designers chase bigger ambitions.

The company's hurried rewrite suffered from second-system syndrome, adding unnecessary features that complicated the product.