conserved

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It raised the height of a dam to double its storage, built the desalination plant and acquired rights to a trove of conserved Colorado River water from a desert farming district.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Abroad, though, interest rates and inflation risks have shot up, fuel is being conserved, and economic forecasts are darkening.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

By comparing how these gene clusters are arranged across hundreds of plant genomes and tracing their patterns from ancestral species to modern plants, they were able to detect conserved elements that earlier methods had missed.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Overall, the findings establish MafB as a central and evolutionarily conserved regulator of macrophage development, identity, and function, offering new insight into how the immune system helps protect and sustain the health of multiple organs.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026

Gradually, he began to discern patterns in the data—unanticipated constancies, conserved ratios, numerical rhythms.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee