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culture

[kuhl-cher] / ˈkʌl tʃər /




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Andre McKechnie argues the Vegemite ban in Victoria's jails denies him the right to "enjoy his culture"

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

The culture ministry had called on institutions to take every measure to ensure the safety of visitors and staff, and the protection of artworks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

The open microfluidic platform fits into standard multi-well plates, allowing it to be incorporated into existing laboratory procedures for cell culture and imaging.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

“That’s not a failure of the song; it’s a feature of how culture works when media is no longer centralized.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

But I remember that from the beginning I wanted my culture to be number one and school to be number two—I would learn them both at the same time if I could.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

Participants from both Western European and East Asian cultures watched and listened to different versions of the speakers before rating how confident their answers appeared.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

It seems like getting stuff like that done is harder for men in Latin cultures and it’s great that you’re somebody who’s been through it and can talk about what you experienced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

All experiments were carried out in controlled laboratory settings using isolated bacterial cultures or simplified microbial communities.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

But the diversity of cultures in the United States means there is no standard rule when it comes to birthday dinners, which is perhaps why the debate continues online.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

He held the hand of a ten-year-old Mexican ballerina and was followed by scores of men and women in the customary clothing of their native cultures.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

To investigate potential harm, the researchers exposed cultured human blood cells to sucralose-6-acetate and examined indicators of genetic damage.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

He then exposed the cultured cells to toxic chemicals to see how they responded to severe damage.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

Driving the interest are several fast-proliferating chains that offer probiotic-rich yogurts made with cultured milks that contain healthy bacteria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

He seems to have been part of a group of cultured Britons who argued with one another about how to tackle the many problems they faced—not least the invading Saxons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Aunt Carrie, remember, was the one who read poetry, studied Latin and Greek, talked cultured, believed in human excrement, and put mourning dye on Mary Toy’s hair for Granny’s funeral.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

There, he spent his days culturing cells and running experiments in a Minneapolis Veterans Affairs laboratory until 2016, when he left GeneSegues but stayed in Minnesota.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

However, this has not been the case with microbial populations due to the impossibility of isolating, culturing and analyzing the genetic content of the different species and their individuals in the laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2024

Suspended in water, the legs of the new robot are made of 3D-printed elements, flexible rubber, and skeletal muscle tissue grown by culturing rat cells in a lab.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 26, 2024

"By systematically culturing every patient, we thought we could understand how transmission was happening. The surprise was that, based on the genomics, there was very little transmission."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023

And soon, HeLa cells weren’t the only ones being bought and sold for research—with media and equipment standardization, culturing became easier, and researchers began growing cells of all kinds.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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