mouse
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Rangers weigh and record details of each mouse between April and October.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
I paired a keyboard and mouse to the tablet and wrote a fair amount of this column on it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Their attention centered on specialized cells called spongiotrophoblasts, which occupy a region of the mouse placenta where maternal and fetal cells interact.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
The mouse experiments demonstrated protection against tissue damage, but they did not establish that the strategy prevents colorectal cancer.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
“Well, I suppose I might have left her in mouse school to finish her senior year,” I explained.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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Because mice are efficient transmitters of B. burgdorferi, an increase in mice seemed likely to produce not only more ticks but also a greater proportion of infected ticks.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
They introduced nutrients directly into the stomachs of mice while monitoring dopamine activity throughout their brains.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
In both mice and humans, nutrients produced a considerably stronger dopamine response in the left BLA than in the corresponding region on the right.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
After mice tasted a flavor containing no calories, the researchers artificially activated dopamine fibers in the BLA.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
At dinner Cecil led us to the best yardstick, and mice stood on their spools for a better look at us.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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For one, the dock occasionally disappeared when I opened a full-screen Chrome tab in laptop mode, and it didn’t pop up when I moused around the bottom of the screen.
From The Verge ● Aug. 31, 2022
I have moused and clicked through a few, mostly ones I could watch without covering the screen whenever the children walked by.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2020
Figuring that black-clad subversives might congregate on the indie boards, I moused over to Pop Genius to check out the state of the conversation around Death Cab For Cutie.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2015
Jamie videoed her dance routine and then they ran it in slow motion and moused it into shape, speeding up moves or slowing them down, repositioning legs, arms and head.
From Nature ● Mar. 17, 2015
People stood about looking on; some poked at the embers of the smoky fires, some moused and prowled about to see what scrap they might pick up.
From The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Not especially keen swimmers, they used their mousing skills to secure passage on world-traveling ships piloted by merchants and explorers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
He was moved out of the department's central London building during the Covid pandemic and in 2020 he formally retired from his mousing duties.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
Typing and mousing for long periods is stressful for the finger and wrist muscles as well as the forearms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Vermont State University’s Castleton campus is honoring the feline not for his mousing or napping, but for his friendliness.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
It ain’t nowhere near’s sly nor quick as a cat; it ain’t no good at all at mousing nor catching holt of birds without a lot of help.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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