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culture

[kuhl-cher] / ˈkʌl tΚƒΙ™r /




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This remake of a cult curio from the 1970s barely made a ripple at the box office, but it’s one of the most fascinating horror films of the year with its commentary on online culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Those measures include performance indicators in categories like people, culture, operations and product.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

“As someone who has been in indie publishing culture since the ’90s, Catapult was a holdout of an old world,” Frangello said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

“In partnership with Jean-Georges, we’re building a lifestyle destination that blends world-class dining, holistic wellness, and elevated service—a combination that deeply resonates with globally-recognized athletes, food connoisseurs, and art and culture enthusiasts.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

That is part of the discipline, part of the culture.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

Different cultures use different names for the 12 or 13 full Moons across the lunar calendar, but many of the common ones we use today originate from Native American cultures.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

“When CEOs are deep into learning, they set up cultures of learning,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

It seems like getting stuff like that done is harder for men in Latin cultures and it’s great that you’re somebody who’s been through it and can talk about what you experienced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Additional experiments involved human stem-cell models, three-dimensional cultures of blood vessels, and studies in zebrafish and mice.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

We’re starting a big unit on ancient cultures that will last until December.

From "Merci SuΓ‘rez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

A study published in the Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry in March 2024 examined Menin in cultured mouse hippocampal cells exposed to the stress hormone corticosterone.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

They also carried out experiments in mice and cultured cells to investigate how dietary oxalate might influence inflammation in the intestinal lining.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Driving the interest are several fast-proliferating chains that offer probiotic-rich yogurts made with cultured milks that contain healthy bacteria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

He seems to have been part of a group of cultured Britons who argued with one another about how to tackle the many problems they faced—not least the invading Saxons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

He had a high-pitched, cultured voice tinged with a New York accent.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

There, he spent his days culturing cells and running experiments in a Minneapolis Veterans Affairs laboratory until 2016, when he left GeneSegues but stayed in Minnesota.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

Suspended in water, the legs of the new robot are made of 3D-printed elements, flexible rubber, and skeletal muscle tissue grown by culturing rat cells in a lab.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 26, 2024

They used DNA sequencing, mass spectrometry and microbial culturing to look at the chemicals in the secretions and the microbes that make them.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2023

"By systematically culturing every patient, we thought we could understand how transmission was happening. The surprise was that, based on the genomics, there was very little transmission."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023

That’s how he came up with the roller-tube culturing technique, his most important invention.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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