attach
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If BFT needs claudin-4 to attach to colon cells, perhaps a substitute could lure the toxin away from its intended target.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
At one Saturday morning workshop in Brighton, Jayne Eagle shows her students how to attach a patch of fabric behind a tear so the cat-face design peeps through.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Struggles to grow ad revenue reveal the downside of AI for Internet companies as consumers rely more on chatbots and agents to which tech companies have yet to attach ad features.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
But earlier this week, a controversial pilot program that would attach hundreds of license plate readers to streetlights around the city cleared the City Council, and it is expected to launch in the near future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
My father always claimed that a league wasn’t really a unit of measurement at all, just a way for farmers to attach numbers to their rough guesses.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Even then, the streamer attaches some pragmatic caveats to his disdain.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
HGF then attaches to a receptor called c-met on the surface of satellite cells.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
What if it attaches conditions that force religious schools to choose between accessing public benefits and compromising their values?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
“I’m very concerned about the possible corrosion, specifically rust, of all the hardware that holds the bridge together and that attaches the cables,” one participant said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Dylan attaches a rope to his harness and starts climbing.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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In June, she had surgery, which included a hysterectomy and a full bowel shave to try to remove endometriosis tissue which attached her womb to her bowel.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Unite national officer Oliver Richardson added in a statement that "a number of unions across Europe have the same" agreement and that his union's deal is not "attached to, nor dependent on company performance".
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Instead of binding to claudin-4 receptors on colon cells, BFT attached to the decoy proteins.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
In a separate post, he shared a photo of Downer and her dog, Rex, and wrote in the caption that his sister was very attached to the dog and had last been seen in Koreatown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
In Roman times, a bronze sculpture in the shape of a crab had been attached to the base below each of the four corners of Cleo to stabilize it.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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At a loss, Helen and Minnie somehow end up attaching to each other, falling into a strange but comfortable rhythm, play-acting the roles they yearn for, filling a Callie-shaped hole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
He’s just done it more quietly, without attaching the force of his weird personality as a condition.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
The unusual pattern suggested that bacteria were doing more than simply attaching themselves to the plastic.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia reasoned that attaching the GPS device constituted such a tort and therefore fell within the scope of the Fourth Amendment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
She clipped the wires to the lemons by attaching one end to a nail on one lemon and the other end to a penny on the next lemon.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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