mouse
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Faber: That’s $180, while your average gaming mouse is probably about $60.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
To investigate this process, the researchers studied developing mouse embryos and identified two different populations of brain progenitor cells.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Clad in a blue suit and squinting at a computer screen in his office, Putin leaned forward and clicked his mouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Working with mouse neurons, they found evidence that a familiar picture of brain cell anatomy may overlook an important feature of the cells' signal-carrying extensions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
“That brainless brother of yours will welcome any reason to miss these last weeks of mouse school. He’d sooner drown than finish the semester.”
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
In mice fed a high-fat diet, a fraction containing both polyphenols and polysaccharides from white mulberry fruit produced more favorable changes in the gut microbiota than either fraction given on its own.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
In experiments with mice, researchers found that T cells receive signals from lymph nodes that appear to prepare them to enter the brain and contribute to damage.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Even with that delay, mice that received either intervention showed better motor recovery, smaller lesion volumes, improved glymphatic flow, and lower levels of inflammatory cytokines in the brain.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
The researchers caution, however, that the findings come from mice and cannot yet be assumed to apply in the same way to people.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
It would probably surprise us more, and be an even funnier story, if the mice in the cockpit had upset Aleksandr Gridnev rather than Zhenya Prokhorova.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
I moused over the exclamation mark next to “Onboarding” and a helpful pop-up appeared.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
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
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
I dunno what was said, but I saw ’em an’ moused right along down whar they was talkin’.
From Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield by John Goss
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
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
If the DeskPad feels like overkill, try Logitech’s $19.99 Desk Mat, a soft-cloth mat with a nice mousing feel in an assortment of soft colors.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
Charles said harshly, “Say, what you mousing around at?”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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