becomes

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One influential idea is that natural selection becomes weaker later in life, allowing harmful biological processes to emerge with age because they have less impact on reproduction and survival earlier in life.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Cabbage becomes slaw, stir-fry, soup or salad depending on the mood and the state of the week.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

With Kevin Warsh taking hold of the Fed’s reins, he becomes just the 10th chair of the U.S. central bank since 1948 and just the third in the past 20 years.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

It becomes his “monk’s cell,” and there he accepts that he “would never be happy, and that instead of pursuing happiness” he would “try to see what was holy in things.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

One fission becomes two, then four, eight, sixteen, and thirty-two.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland