passage
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Life is measured in mileposts, a steady progression through the rites of passage that delineate the mortal journey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Polly Girvin, Hunter’s former partner and a retired lawyer focused on Native American issues, called AB 2494’s passage by the Legislature “nearly miraculous.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The new game aims to draw a new audience to discover a title that has felt the passage of time.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
The passage of time hasn’t softened anyone’s read, and few people are rushing to publicly declare their love for the show in 2026.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
I needed only forty more dollars to pay for my family’s passage, minus what Mr. Stieglitz had just given me, but even that felt impossible.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
The scientists passaged a bat coronavirus from Laos that is a distant cousin of SARS-CoV-2 through human cells and in mice to see whether it acquired a specific mutation that would help it infect people.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2022
The infected cells were passaged the next day and selected in puromycin for 3 days.
From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017
Because no airborne transmission was observed in experiment 2, A/H5N1wildtype and A/H5N1HA Q222L,G224S PB2 E627K were serially passaged in ferrets to allow adaptation for efficient replication in mammals.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
Comparison of airborne transmission of experimental passaged A/H5N1 and 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 viruses in individual ferrets.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
There Banjo sidled, yawed, and passaged, fretting to be after the brown.
From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Alfred Ollivant
By introducing mutations and passaging, Kawaoka and Fouchier managed to tweak the virus so it could spread between laboratory ferrets, a stand-in for humans.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2022
The Sabin vaccine was created in the 1940s and ’50s by passaging the virus through animal cells until scientists found a suitably weakened form.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2020
Although we observed several other mutations, their occurrence was not consistent among the airborne viruses, indicating that of the heterogeneous virus populations generated by passaging in ferrets, viruses with different genotypes were transmissible.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
We changed the source of inoculum during the course of the experiment, because passaging nasal washes may facilitate the selection of viruses that were secreted from the URT.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
It was a curious sight to see them passaging with little airs and graces, like fighting cocks matched in a pit.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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