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ablate

verb as in wear away

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Some space agencies and private companies have begun designing their craft to ablate — break apart and burn up — in the atmosphere at the end of their life, an approach called “design for demise.”

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But when the researchers genetically ablated these Mrgprb4 sensory neurons, sexual experiences no longer released dopamine and the female mice began rejecting the male mice’s advances after their first experience.

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That causes some of the ice to ablate into gas.

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I was told that I would eventually have in-utero surgery to ablate the veins connecting the twins, which would stop the perfusion.

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Robinson fades, agency ablated; whiteness occupies the forefront.

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