passage
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Police Scotland said it was committed to tackling all forms of child sexual exploitation, regardless of the passage of time.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
In the decade following the Civil War and the passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments, Black people began to participate fully in civil society.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
Yet scientists are finding ways to capture evidence of their passage, opening new opportunities to investigate the cosmos and its most extreme environments.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
If you’ve never heard of Christensen, it’s largely because the passage of time has dimmed his once-bright star.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The first we heard of it was when my sister Louise came skittering down the long passage from upstairs.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
The scientists passaged a bat coronavirus from Laos that is a distant cousin of SARS-CoV-2 through human cells and in mice to see whether it acquired a specific mutation that would help it infect people.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2022
The infected cells were passaged the next day and selected in puromycin for 3 days.
From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017
Comparison of airborne transmission of experimental passaged A/H5N1 and 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 viruses in individual ferrets.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
Because no airborne transmission was observed in experiment 2, A/H5N1wildtype and A/H5N1HA Q222L,G224S PB2 E627K were serially passaged in ferrets to allow adaptation for efficient replication in mammals.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
The Captain passaged his chestnut alongside my bay, chuckled and told me all about it.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various
By introducing mutations and passaging, Kawaoka and Fouchier managed to tweak the virus so it could spread between laboratory ferrets, a stand-in for humans.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2022
The Sabin vaccine was created in the 1940s and ’50s by passaging the virus through animal cells until scientists found a suitably weakened form.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2020
We changed the source of inoculum during the course of the experiment, because passaging nasal washes may facilitate the selection of viruses that were secreted from the URT.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
Although we observed several other mutations, their occurrence was not consistent among the airborne viruses, indicating that of the heterogeneous virus populations generated by passaging in ferrets, viruses with different genotypes were transmissible.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
Then there came that fine sound, the distant neigh of a horse, and the horse in the burn answered gallantly, and came splashing on, passaging and side-stepping a little, with curved crest.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
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