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culture

[kuhl-cher] / ˈkʌl tʃər /




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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

A few days before the ceremony to mark 40 days since Sevda died - highly significant in Iranian culture - she says she was summoned by a local branch of the Ministry of Intelligence.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

"I am part of this culture, of secular culture, and I feel very connected to my country and don't feel uncomfortable at all," he said, adding that "there is no hostility" toward his church.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

For Bobby, it was a chance to gorge himself on Russian history and culture.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

By the mid-20th century, this inherited relationship with the macabre migrated from home altars and rural folk traditions into the pavement of urban youth cultures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Participants from Western European and East Asian cultures then rated how confident the speakers appeared.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Some scales are loosely based on the music of other cultures, and are used when the composer wants to evoke the music of another place or time.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

When Chief Executive Michal Beressi Golomb first showed off an early batch of cultured cocoa-bean chocolate bars made by her startup Celleste, she didn’t have enough for investors to taste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

However, the results are still limited to molecular experiments in cultured mouse muscle cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026

Additional in vivo research will be necessary to determine whether the effects translate beyond cultured cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 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

The ladies wore long strings of cultured pearls that hung down to their knees, and cloche hats that hid their eyebrows.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

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

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

That’s how he came up with the roller-tube culturing technique, his most important invention.

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


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