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Nearly the entire statistical signal was coming from a single branch of the insect family tree.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
On the banks of the Waal, the Dutch branch of the Rhine, swimmers are sunning themselves on a Nijmegen beach that didn't exist before the river level dropped a few months ago.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
It has signed a deal with the Japanese restaurant group, Sunpark, to open a Tokyo branch by the end of this year and then expand in the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
One particularly odd branch of this element of British culture is the longtime existence of joke political candidates, even whole political parties.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
To help himself think, he chewed a branch, then a chunk of the Bright Soft Cold.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Near the summit they metamorphose into stone tree branches, interweaving like a forest canopy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
After a campaign over hundreds of years saw rivers tamed for commercial use, he urged a shift back "toward natural rivers featuring meandering branches and floodplains that retain water across the landscape".
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
The Debsirin School, founded in Bangkok in 1885, is one of Thailand's top secondary schools with branches across the country.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Comparing the relevant circuits in ants and mammals may therefore help scientists uncover a shared biological strategy for parenting that extends across widely separated branches of the animal kingdom.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
In the branches of the tallest yew perched three ravens, watching him.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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EssilorLuxottica has also branched into hearing correction, with its Nuance Audio integrating hearing aids into eyeglasses frames.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
I’ll always prefer Mom’s barbecued chicken, fried chicken and French fries, but I have branched out, trying an array of new, relatively tamer foods, ranging from albacore tuna to zucchini.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
"You can imagine the whole system as a finely branched power grid that becomes increasingly damaged with age: connections break down and currents stall," explains Dr. Maria Ermolaeva, the study's lead author.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
Morris branched out in to light entertainment with The Animal Roadshow and Animal Country, alongside Sarah Kennedy.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
The Nir and the Kell branched off from a wide, tumbling rush of water coming from the north, the Nir continuing south and the Kell running east.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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Described by RAU as a "time-capsule record of biodiversity in the UK", researchers said the possibilities are endless, branching out into climate change, habitat management, genetics, and much more.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
After a short stint in his brother's plastics business, he launched the flagship family conglomerate that bears his name in 1988 by branching out into the export trade.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Scaringe said that while branching into battery energy storage systems is “not a focus for us as a business right now,” Rivian hopes to do more at its sites with Redwood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Nerve cells engineered to produce high amounts of FTL1 developed simplified structures, forming short, single extensions instead of the complex, branching networks seen in healthy cells.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
The gorgonians tend to grow in closely packed, branching masses, but they do not fuse to each other; if they did, their morphogenesis would doubtless become a shambles.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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