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delta

[del-tuh] / ˈdɛl tə /






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To investigate whether gamma delta T cells could directly attack lung cancer, the scientists developed miniature tumors in the laboratory using tissue samples donated by patients.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Researchers noticed evidence pointing toward an important role for gamma delta T cells and used sophisticated genomic and computational techniques to investigate further.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Norris does not use a display on his dashboard showing his progress compared with his previous lap, the so-called delta, as most other drivers do.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

The following morning, bright and early to beat the heat, Olsi drove me the two hours from Tirana to the Vjosa Narta delta, which lies just north of the coastal city of Vlore.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

To learn more about the dispute, I visited the delta of the Nis- qually River, at the southern tip of Puget Sound.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Among the most important contributors are heavy groundwater pumping, oil and gas extraction, the compression of relatively young sediments in river deltas, and the weight of expanding urban areas.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

The world-renowned site features iron carbonate concretions that formed some 309 million years ago, fossilizing within them ancient creatures that had once thrived in the area's lush swamps, shallow seas and river deltas.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

That means they are also imperiling some of the world’s most important food-producing lowlands in the Nile and Mekong deltas and cities from Shanghai to New York.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2025

They focus specifically on urbanising river deltas, which are of great social and economic importance and highly vulnerable to climate change.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024

In his badly penned sigmas and deltas she spied the shaking hand of her son’s growing anxiety.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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