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amoeba

[uh-mee-buh] / əˈmi bə /
NOUN
protozoa
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Read more about the amoeba outbreak in Kerala, India.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Inside the amoeba, these pathogens can survive in a kind of safe shelter, shielded from disinfectants that would normally destroy them.

From Science Daily May 2, 2026

Its undulating form has earned its share of abuse, and it has been compared to a pancake or an amoeba.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

In fact, they immediately set themselves on the task of pleasing Carol and those like her, along with solving the riddle of their immunity, so they can absorb the stragglers into their joy amoeba.

From Salon Nov. 26, 2025

Life, my friend Bando once said, is meeting problems and solving them whether you are an amoeba or a space traveller.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

The researchers also warn that amoebae can act as living shelters for other harmful microbes.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2026

They point to climate change, aging water infrastructure, and weak monitoring systems as factors that could allow dangerous amoebae to spread and become harder to control.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2026

A team of environmental and public health scientists is raising concerns about a largely overlooked group of microscopic organisms that may pose a growing danger worldwide: free living amoebae.

From Science Daily May 2, 2026

Rising global temperatures are expected to make the problem worse by allowing heat loving amoebae to spread into regions where they were once uncommon.

From Science Daily Jan. 25, 2026

I suppose it all started when Lorraine and I and these two amoebae called Dennis Kobin and Norton Kelly were hot on those phone gags last September.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

Many are microscopic, single celled organisms, including amoebas, algae, and diatoms.

From Science Daily May 7, 2026

Visitors to Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada are being warned against submerging themselves in the hot springs below the Hoover Dam due to the risk of infection by deadly brain-eating amoebas.

From Washington Times Oct. 13, 2023

Although kelp behaves and looks like a plant, it’s a protist, the same group as single-cell amoebas.

From Seattle Times Jun. 8, 2023

Although the ones they studied were infectious only to amoebas, the researchers said that there was a risk that other viruses trapped in the permafrost for millennia could spread to humans and other animals.

From Washington Post Dec. 2, 2022

Not only that, Amá says I should earn my quinceañera, even though I would rather eat a bowl of amoebas than go through with it.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez




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