embryonic
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Earlier technologies provided important insights into mouse embryonic development, but they generally captured only portions of the larger cellular family tree.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
To illustrate the embryonic technology’s potential danger, Mr. Bostrom imagines a superintelligent machine that is given the objective of maximizing production of paper clips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Since many ports lack the grid infrastructure to power so many energy-guzzling ships, and emission-capture technology is embryonic, ships may have no choice but to pay the fines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Future research on swimming performance and embryonic development will be needed to test that possibility.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The historic transformation of music in the jazz age was enabling an equally historic, admittedly embryonic, social transformation.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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