passage
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Reaching pension age in the country is widely considered a rite of passage into a second phase of life dedicated to travel, hobbies and leisure that, for the luckiest, can stretch well into three decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
There is one particular passage Talarico has been partial to of late – the familiar Old Testament showdown between scrappy David and the giant Goliath.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Proponents assert that passage would lead to better city services and quicker repairs of deteriorating infrastructure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The Hula Valley lies within the Levantine Corridor, a natural passage connecting Africa and Eurasia that played an important role in the movements of ancient humans and animals.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
“I think there’s a passage in the Bible that could explain it better than I could; where it says ‘O ye of little faith.’
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
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
Comparison of airborne transmission of experimental passaged A/H5N1 and 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 viruses in individual ferrets.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
There Banjo sidled, yawed, and passaged, fretting to be after the brown.
From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Alfred Ollivant
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
And passaging in cell cultures often deletes the furin cleavage site or makes viruses weaker.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 1, 2021
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
In those studies, H5N1 viruses were made transmissible via respiratory droplets among ferrets by engineering the virus; well-described and published protocols including reverse genetics, reassortment, and passaging of viruses in mammals were used.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
A school horse is one that is taught to do passaging, to change his feet at command, to move sideways and backwards; in fact, to drill.
From Three Elephant Power and Other Stories by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
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