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culture

[kuhl-cher] / ˈkʌl tΚƒΙ™r /




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For Espinoza, that liberation meant reclaiming a femininity she had once feared, by drawing from drag culture and the ’80s vogue tradition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The Taylors had heard of Gund’s culture through other business leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

"It's part of the culture of New York," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Gadi Eisenkot, the man who could unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, almost always dresses in plain black, speaks halting English and, reflecting the military culture that shapes him, responds in interviews in bullet-point lists.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

“I read about him in my pop culture omnibus, and I have an eidetic memory,” Ridge said.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“When CEOs are deep into learning, they set up cultures of learning,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

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

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

It simply interested him—greatly—how all the cultures of Zeru were underpinned by the same story.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Ernst is handsome, cultured, cool under pressure, effortlessly polyglot and unshakably ethical.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

For much of the opening half they were like a cultured fighter, boxing the ears off an over-matched rival, bamboozling their punchbag with their movement before what felt like an inevitable knockout.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

She herself was cultured and from some place over in Germany and had been to the grand museums of Europe to look Art in the face.

From "How the GarcΓ­a Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

Organoids are made by culturing a tissue sample in a solution that stimulates production of stem cells, the special cells within a body responsible for repair and growth.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2024

It does not require special bio-printing equipment or culturing methods to keep the tissue healthy, and can be studied in depth with microscopes, standard imaging techniques and electrodes already common in the field.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 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

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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