mouse
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Both sides are now engaged in a constant game of cat and mouse, jumping around the frequency spectrum to jam and avoid each other, and they are increasingly using AI to do that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
In early mouse embryos, blocking E-cadherin caused dying cells to remain uncleared.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
Faber: That’s $180, while your average gaming mouse is probably about $60.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Human and mouse metabolism can differ substantially, as can the distribution of fat tissue and responses to medications.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
He’s flashing those long choppers, like a cat happy to see a mouse.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
When the researchers genetically silenced the somatostatin neurons, the mice that received the cannabinoid became less likely to avoid the predator odor.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
After a single injection of the two-particle treatment, all detectable cancer disappeared in nearly all of the mice within two weeks.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
The researchers compared 15-PGDH levels in knee cartilage from young and old mice.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
The treated mice also moved more normally and placed more weight on the paw attached to the injured leg than untreated animals did.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
We are not good about time, we mice.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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
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
When mousing in snow, the fox's long snout also allows it to reach its prey earlier, as mice are very sensitive to movements in their environment and can quickly escape.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
Charles said harshly, “Say, what you mousing around at?”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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