nucleus
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When the NFL draft begins on Thursday, the Jets and Giants are armed with the type of capital that could form the nucleus of winning teams for years to come.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
A thoroughly uninflected, completely random space is not natural; after all, even an amoeba has a nucleus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
To fit inside the tiny nucleus of a cell, DNA must be carefully organized.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
All the matter around us -- including the protons and neutrons that make up the nucleus of atoms -- are made of baryons.
From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026
When a neutron traveling at just the right speed strikes the nucleus of a uranium 235 atom, it is absorbed and the atom becomes even more unstable.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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