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invasive

[in-vey-siv] / ɪnˈveɪ sɪv /


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Ohio State has filed a patent application on nonviral gene therapy for minimally invasively treating painful musculoskeletal disorders.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2024

Five Australian women who were strip-searched and invasively examined at Doha airport have failed in their bid to sue Qatar Airways.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2024

Properly named Pennisetum clandestinum, kikuyu grows quickly and invasively, smothering any other grass in its path.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2021

That’s why spaces like airline security, where agents can detain and invasively search anyone judged to be suspicious, are so precarious for gender-nonconforming people.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2018

Mark Scholz, a prostate oncology specialist in Marina del Rey, Calif., maintains that an mpMRI can yield much of the same information as a biopsy and far less invasively.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2016




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