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culture

[kuhl-cher] / ˈkʌl tʃər /




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Taken together, however, the works describe what Mr. Groom, an eminent academic scholar of supernatural literature, calls “a culture of vampirism.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

More Than Equal's research also highlights a close-knit, family-oriented, collaborative culture in drag racing.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Josh, you’ve said that you felt celebrity culture was “vacuous” and that you didn’t want to do things like “Cribs” or “Punk’d.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

As a crossover event of meme-fueled popular culture and global sports, it was as though Grumpy Cat had hit a World Series walkoff in Yankee Stadium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Young people had begun embracing and feeling proud of Negro history and culture rather than running away from or being ashamed of it.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Institutions must examine the cultures and power structures in which hazing flourishes, including secrecy, expectations of unquestioned loyalty, power imbalances and norms that discourage intervention and reporting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Climaxing in a tense court case that hinges on what constitutes a slap, “Fjord” explores clashing cultures and mutual distrust, leaving us unsure how to feel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

To investigate the receptor, the researchers used live cultures of human brain cells along with slices of brain tissue collected during neurosurgery.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

"It will help the players themselves with opening up their horizons into different cultures, different countries, experiencing other footballing nations and other styles of football," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

They didn’t know anything about the different cultures, languages, or histories, and honestly, it felt like they didn’t want to know.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

He then exposed the cultured cells to toxic chemicals to see how they responded to severe damage.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 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

For much of the opening half they were like a cultured fighter, boxing the ears off an over-matched rival, bamboozling their punchbag with their movement before what felt like an inevitable knockout.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

"They took bees back and growed them in the lab, they cultured all the pollen, the wax, and many, many things."

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

The Bongers are a cultured middle-class family, wealthier than the Van Goghs.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

That precision, combined with the team's ability to reversibly manipulate the lenses themselves, might expand the culturing options available to those working in biomaterials and biomedical engineering, Morin said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 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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