helix
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You can look at friendship as a journey that is like a double helix: Sometimes you and a friend will be in sync financially or emotionally, and other times you’ll be out of alignment.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026
Electric current flowed more easily in one direction, and the effect could be reversed by changing the magnetization or switching the handedness of the helix.
From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2026
Franklin, whose expert X-ray images solidified Watson’s conviction that DNA was a double helix, had died four years earlier of ovarian cancer.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
When she loses her cycle, she is forced to run up the helix of a parking garage at normal human speed, giving a pathetic comedic element to someone who ought to be terrifying.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Reading his letter, I drew a deep breath, for I realized that Delbriick did not know of the complementary double helix at the time of Linus’ talk.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Vocabulary lists containing helix
"Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone, Chapters 28–37
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