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cloverleaf

[kloh-ver-leef] / ˈkloʊ vərˌlif /




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To examine these interactions in detail, the team used X-ray crystallography to visualize the RNA cloverleaf and the 3CD protein together.

From Science Daily May 13, 2026

Regularly, I found myself inching around the cloverleaf next to a handsome man in a blue BMW.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 26, 2024

Creatively designed roadways captured the public’s imagination, such as the first cloverleaf interchange, erected in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, in 1928, which allowed drivers to move between two highways without crossings or left turns.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2024

The sanctuary area was something of a maritime highway cloverleaf.

From Seattle Times Mar. 1, 2023

There’s also a mirror where you can do tongue exercises, to see if you can roll your tongue up at the sides or into a cloverleaf shape.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

We’re going fast around all the cloverleafs and overpasses.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2024

Routes 95, 29, 32 and 1 and local roads and cloverleafs are filled with trash, including rubber from tires, mattresses, car parts, bags of trash and debris.

From Washington Post Sep. 9, 2022

He loves the system — the cloverleafs, the underpasses.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2020

The highways on Long Island were twisted into cloverleafs!

From The Guardian Sep. 4, 2010

Freeway cloverleafs eliminate the need for intersection stopping; limited access banishes blind entrances and overly frequent inflows of traffic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Furth are called 'Kleeblatter', which means cloverleaves, but luck has not been on their side in just their second ever season in the Bundesliga.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2021




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