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In this context, "organic" simply means carbon-based and does not indicate that the material came from life.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Sept. 11 was an event of its time and deserves to stand in history, but not entirely outside of context.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
“We do acknowledge that it’s a tragic event. We don’t fully go into it. Since we weren’t really taught about it, we don’t have a lot of context on it,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Copernicus observations go back to 1940 but other evidence -- such as ice cores, tree rings and coral skeletons -- allow scientists to place today's climate against a much longer historical context.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Ursus didn’t bother to reply, but took Kepler’s praise out of context and published it as a kind of endorsement of some of his own work—which, as it happens, was critical of Tycho.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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“We looked specifically at meows in two contexts: separation from their human in an unfamiliar environment, and then the human’s return,” Schwartz says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"States and territories are advised to review" the Trump administration's recommendations on "immunization requirements for contexts such as school enrollment and attendance," the order states.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Wildfire risk depends on how landscapes are managed as well as on the ecological and social contexts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
"We are planning on further extending the experimental methods to delve deeper into different systems on our planet in different contexts, the possibilities are, quite literally, out of this world," says Noto.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Ernest Lawrence was being mentioned in quarters and in contexts that only a year or two earlier would have been unimaginable.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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