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[eks] / ɛks /




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This approach is significantly more efficient and cost-effective than ex vivo therapy, which requires harvesting a patient’s cells, modifying them in a lab, and re-infusing them.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

She told me her ex was a public defender, and he had shared stories about the lives people carry beneath the facts of their cases.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

No relevant precedent existed, and given the unique crimes the Nazi hierarchy had committed, it would require ex post facto laws to prosecute them.

From Salon • May 18, 2026

For Apple, as for Jobs, the whole episode involved the kind of deus ex machina you could never get away with in fiction.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

I’m still fantasizing that a deus ex machina will descend from the heavens to resolve the situation.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed




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