cleaning

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RNA silencing, also known as RNA interference, is a way that plants and invertebrate animals can protect themselves from viruses by cleaving viral RNA to repress viral replication.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2024

Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh described the film as “a social satire that wields a scalpel, not a cleaving broadsword, as it surgically slices through the many hypocrisies of the culture industry at large.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2024

“Society of the Snow” is judicious in what we see of the actual cutting and cleaving.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2024

First, his job is to act as an impartial observer, obeying the rules of forensic archaeology and cleaving to hard data.

From National Geographic • Oct. 23, 2023

That cleaving look in her eye is not just memory.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez