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culture

[kuhl-cher] / ˈkʌl tʃər /




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The goal of Apollo’s culture is to “keep companies playing to win.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Many voters’ economic woes are sky-high, making it hard for culture war nonsense to feel relevant.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

It has its own culture, its own music, and its own fast-food chains.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

Gerrow said members of the lodge wanted people from all sections of society to be allowed to express their culture and traditions in peace.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

“Nathan doesn’t get exposed to his culture in Phoenix.”

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

This belief endures in some cultures to this day, a reminder that the magic in these treasures lives on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Three geographically separated cultures have described the same highly specific hallucinations, and DNA testing has linked two of those cases to a single mushroom species.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Different cultures use different names for the 12 or 13 full Moons across the lunar calendar, but many of the common ones we use today originate from Native American cultures.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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

By analyzing human and mouse fat samples, studying cultured fat cells, and conducting experiments in genetically modified mice, the scientists identified another mechanism linking this protein to energy expenditure.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

A study published in the Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry in March 2024 examined Menin in cultured mouse hippocampal cells exposed to the stress hormone corticosterone.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Pearl diving has all but disappeared, particularly after the mass production of cultured pearls on farms after World War I. In Gulf countries, the extinction of this profession converges with a familiar story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

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

"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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