atlas
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Prosecution barrister Damian Warburton said the complete atlas had been worth about £50,000 and the map alone could fetch £6,000 on the black market.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The court heard West, from Chingford in east London, had viewed the atlas on 19 and 20 December 2024 and again on the day before the theft.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The atlas also establishes a detailed reference for healthy mouse brain tissue.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
“Just as an atlas is a collection of maps, linking together features of the land like altitude and location, AlphaGenome Atlas charts the molecular effects of DNA variants across the genome.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Go ahead and label each of them in your book,” Granddaddy said, “and note the page in the atlas so you can find them again.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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That does not mean scientists have lacked brain atlases.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
They hold thousands of maps and atlases of everything from cave networks to mountain ranges to capital flows to the surface of the moon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
The Nazi atlases “were like documents of death. The atlases that Shiv is creating are really living, interactive tools to support life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
As a child, he wanted to learn about the world, poring over maps and atlases to learn the names of capital cities and mountains.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
I kept thinking about maps, like the way sometimes when I was a kid I would look at atlases, and just the looking was kind of like being somewhere else.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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