organism

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Grace is sent into space on a one-way mission to stop the spread of an energy-consuming organism called Astrophage, which threatens to create a new Ice Age on Earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

She added that the drugs did not provide effective coverage against a Gram-positive organism, which was the most likely pathogen causing the infection.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

To retrieve the organism, the team drilled a 25-meter ice core from a section of the cave called the Great Hall, capturing a frozen record spanning 13,000 years.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2026

In other words, once an intimate symbiotic relationship forms — in which at least one organism depends on another for survival — it’s locked in.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson