branch
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Sequencing it placed the fish well outside the seahorses, on the branch that is their closest relative.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Those who closely follow the Oscars say documentary branch voters tend to shy away from popular films, as well as those that are unconventional or feature celebrities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
But responsibility for enforcing those limits is increasingly falling to organizations, institutions and individuals outside of the legislative branch.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026
The government has mobilized 70,000 officers nationwide from the police and gendarmerie, a branch of the armed forces with policing duties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
He cleared one whole branch of its twigs and moved higher.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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“Oh, look,” she says on our walk, pointing to the entwined branches of a nearby pine and sycamore tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The architects of the Constitution anticipated that officials in different branches would compete to preserve their authority.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026
In a forest grove to the east, a contractor climbed into a mechanical harvester and pivoted its head to grip and fell a tree, strip its branches and cut the trunk into exact lengths.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Last year, the BBC learned that dozens of branches had voiced concerns over the plan to close more than 100 branches across the UK and Ireland.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
It rustled the branches of the blooming jacarandas.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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The venture marks a new foray for Luckey, who has branched out from running Anduril, which was recently valued at $90 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
But Chawawa has since branched out from social media - making two Bafta-nominated TV documentaries, starring on Taskmaster and doing stand-up comedy.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
EssilorLuxottica has also branched into hearing correction, with its Nuance Audio integrating hearing aids into eyeglasses frames.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
I’ll always prefer Mom’s barbecued chicken, fried chicken and French fries, but I have branched out, trying an array of new, relatively tamer foods, ranging from albacore tuna to zucchini.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Near the bottom of the hill they came upon another passage that branched off to their right and slanted steeply downward.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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The Canadian developer specialising in role-playing games was founded in 1995 and found millions of fans with its complex, branching narratives.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The bright yellow coral, which has a branching, tree-like appearance, was discovered between 360 and 529 meters below the Pacific Ocean's surface.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
But it also means branching into new “AI adopters,” like companies in the transportation and real-estate sectors.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The foundation runs a World War II educational program, taking Wantagh students to a museum in New Orleans about that conflict, before branching into 9/11 education.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
The gorgonians tend to grow in closely packed, branching masses, but they do not fuse to each other; if they did, their morphogenesis would doubtless become a shambles.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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