germinal

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Viola also performed in avant-garde composer David Tudor’s germinal musical production, “Rainforest.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2024

During an infection, our lymph nodes and spleen sprout cellular cradles called germinal centers that allow B cells to hone their antibodies to be more effective against an attacking pathogen.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 31, 2023

In the liner notes he wrote for a 2004 reissue of “John Somebody” on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, Mr. Johnson said that germinal material for the piece dated as far back as 1977.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2023

The cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker published his germinal text "The Denial of Death" in 1973.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2022

Could the effects of this germinal mutation be undone?

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley