conjugation
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Known as sperm conjugation, this coordinated behavior is changing how scientists view both reproduction and evolution.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
"They do not have conjugation, but each individual sperm is completely embedded in this material, and we do not even know how they are motile."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Even the mystery she’s trying to unravel depends on correctly parsing the meaning of syntax and conjugation.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
The awkwardness of screwing up in front of strangers, butchering their language and sweating while you raid the mind’s dusty corners for a verb conjugation, is not to be found here.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2023
On the opposite page is the Colosseum in Rome, labeled in English, and below, a conjugation: sum es est, su- mus estis sunt.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
"If anyone asks if I can say something in Spanish, I just bosh out some verb conjugations," Raducanu joked.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025
I pictured him sitting at his desk, working hour after hour on his German verb conjugations or econ problem sets.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2021
In English, they both directly translate as conjugations of “to be.”
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2019
They shifted their gaze from their teacher, Zainab Sunji, to the notebooks before them in an attempt to replicate the verb conjugations Sunji had written on the board.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2016
If I never learned my French conjugations from Anatole, at least I would try to learn patience.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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