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For the experiment, the researchers worked with three genetically distinct lines of fish bred in the laboratory.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
“Excellence in football and excellence in life is bred when men recognize their opportunities and then pursue them with a passion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
They instead often raised expectations, forced dependency and gave rise to a vision of progress that reinforced social exclusion, bred anxieties about status, and concealed the environmental costs of a culture built on consumption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Aulon, 38, was born and bred here in Vlore.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
It was Argos, whom Odysseus had bred before he went to Troy.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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