breast
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However, the team also confirmed promising results in other cancers, including breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and melanoma, a serious form of skin cancer.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Researchers observed similar results in both colorectal and breast cancer cells, suggesting that the relationship between tetraploid cell size and tumor aggressiveness may extend across different cancers.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Shaughnessy Naughton, a chemist who worked on drug discovery and breast cancer research, founded 3.14 Action in 2016 after two unsuccessful tries for a congressional seat in the Philadelphia suburbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Research into breast cancer or DNA sequencing that helped combat coronavirus could also be honoured.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
He sighs deeply and clasps a hand to his breast.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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Another series of sculptures, “Miss Mao,” depicts the former leader with an exaggerated nose and breasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
I tend to start with the protein and work outward: If two chicken breasts comfortably feed your two-person household, chop and freeze two with the scallions and ginger.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
Know how to check your breasts for cancer.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Tyson Foods, Pilgrim’s Pride and Wayne-Sanderson Farms already have been ramping up production of boneless chicken breasts and wings to meet what is expected to be an onslaught of consumer demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
It was a souvenir from a spiritual retreat she and Papa had attended; the words GOD is love crawled over her sagging breasts.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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“Do you want single breasted or double breasted? Do you want a coat? Do you want it baggy? Do you want it slim? What color? What fabric?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
The assistant bar manager, for instance, wears a sports jacket of burgundy velvet; the bar manager wears the double breasted version of the same garment, which is incrementally fancier.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
A double breasted coat-jacket in gray had blown-up pinstripes with the dominant silhouette of a wide, flat front.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2018
Saturday’s muted variation on sartorial elegance - fitted double breasted wool suits, Left Bank dark turtle necks, loose, pin-striped jackets and sumptuous car coats - was just this.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 24, 2015
Yet he could have breasted all these things in some way, if the central tenet of his heart had not been ravaged.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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The point is for his team to be playing its best basketball in March, like a sprinter hitting top speed while breasting the finish-line tape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Part of Singapore's reason for dismissing American pedagogy is "navigational" in a geopolitical sense: Lee Hsien Loong likens his country to a small but doughty craft breasting powerful riptides of global economics and politics.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021
In Douglas’s case, he leans forward, as if forever grasping the prow of a Viking ship, breasting the waves and building up an appetite for experience.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2016
The sea god Neptune takes retribution by sending a monster who advances “across the expanse of ocean, breasting the surge of the waves” to devour Andromeda.
From Washington Post
The Lannisters moved through a sea of ragged men and hungry women, breasting a tide of sullen eyes.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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