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culture

[kuhl-cher] / ˈkʌl tʃər /




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Applications must be approved by the relevant body, which for arts and culture applications is Arts Council England.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Instead of opening a store in West Hollywood or Beverly Hills, the seats of luxury culture in L.A., he chose a sleepy stretch of Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

"The culture of the company is a lot... the personality of the CEO that is there for a long time," Ghodsi said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

Besides tasking him with fixing Uber’s culture, the board set a deadline for Uber to go public in 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Spanish influence in the Philippines is evident in the country’s language, religious practices, surnames, and culture.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Though there are those who think Indigenous cultures must be kept in isolation so that they are not tainted or transformed by outside influences, Valencia believes in preservation through dissemination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

The handover at the Pitt Rivers Museum came as part of a broader trend among Western museums reassessing how they acquired exhibits from other cultures, particularly human remains, and in some cases returning them.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

That picture serves as a glimpse into the heart of the show: a view of two very different men from different places, embracing different cultures and styles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 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

They'll never fully comprehend what it's like to bounce back and forth between two worlds and two cultures without offending either side.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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

These included organoids, which are miniature tumor models grown from patient tissue, as well as human cancer cells cultured in laboratory dishes and implanted into mice.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

To investigate potential natural treatments, the researchers tested a collection of food-derived phytochemicals using cultured C2C12 mouse skeletal 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

The cat’s voice, though cultured, was a high reedy tenor.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

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

They used DNA sequencing, mass spectrometry and microbial culturing to look at the chemicals in the secretions and the microbes that make them.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2023

These findings help to better understand cell differentiation and could thus be a basis for future developments in the field of targeted culturing of tissue in cell replacement therapies.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023

And doing that would require culturing cells on an enormous, industrial scale, which no one had done before.

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


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