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These variations make it challenging to isolate the influence of genetic background from all the other factors that can affect cancer risk.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
“I’m like, how do people forget the background of this woman?”
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Prof Teresa Lamb, who led the Ebola vaccine team at the University of Oxford, said they had been able to create it so quickly because of the background of decades of research.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
With no feudal background, America lacked a capital city like London or Paris designed to showcase the arts, so the idea spread across all 50 states.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
And then, in the background, I saw the green flash.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
In addition, certain genetic backgrounds showed a striking tendency toward whole-genome duplication, an event in which the complete set of chromosomes is copied.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
The backgrounds of school founders and employees often simply don’t matter.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
He or she was to “implement and study innovative approaches for building research capacity in order to engage and retain students from a range of institutions and diverse backgrounds in STEM.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
We asked respondents if they prefer living in communities "where more people come from different cultural backgrounds", or "where most people come from the same cultural background".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
I’d never been to China either, of course, and while I’d never given much thought to going, I could talk for hours about our pieces and their backgrounds.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Vocabulary lists containing background
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Rhetorical Analysis (Chapter 2)
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