fly
Example Sentences
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At the same time, Lee and his colleagues were building a connectome of the fruit fly nerve cord, which controls the legs, wings, and other appendages while also processing sensory information.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
The Ukrainian leader, who usually makes foreign trips from the Polish airport of Rzeszów chose this week to fly to the UK via Moldova.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
To create the connectome, researchers sliced a single fruit fly into thousands of extremely thin serial sections.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
The Artemis 2 mission featured the first Black man, Victor Glover, and the first woman, Christina Koch, to fly around the Moon.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Three girls fly past us, their strides so smooth it doesn’t look like they’re even exerting themselves.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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