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culture

[kuhl-cher] / ˈkʌl tʃər /




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“In Sweden, the culture would just be quietly listen,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Equally fascinating was his pulling back the curtain, so to speak, on the culture of football, particularly the NFL, where the expectation for players is to follow orders and “shut up and play.”

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026

And despite its inherent coolness, the music and culture is a very studious art form.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

On a mission to promote South African culture and the traditions of the Xhosa people, Ngxokolo counts Michelle Obama and Beyonce as fans.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

This is because children’s songs often preserve the social and historical meaning of a culture and the identity of its people.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

"It will help the players themselves with opening up their horizons into different cultures, different countries, experiencing other footballing nations and other styles of football," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Asking for money might have once appeared impolite, at least in some cultures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

“An image I had of Ernie was Peter Pan,” Peck said, describing him as someone with a knack for making his way into different venues and cultures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Vazquez is continuing to investigate the genetic mechanisms that control longevity using cell cultures in his new faculty position at Pennsylvania State University.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

“The bacterial cultures will take a few days to grow, and there’s still a chance it will grow in her sputum. But as of now...”

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

"We found stark separation between the glycoconjugates of cells cultured in conventional medium versus those cultured in a medium that better reflects the nutrient composition of the human body," said Tharp.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 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

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

"They took bees back and growed them in the lab, they cultured all the pollen, the wax, and many, many things."

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

The Bongers are a cultured middle-class family, wealthier than the Van Goghs.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

Culturing skin microbiota in the lab setting can be challenging due to several reasons such as difficulty in replicating the unique environment of skin and the lack of effective culturing methods.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024

In contrast, high density culturing led to cells that expressed markers for surface ectoderm but not amniotic ectoderm.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 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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