passage
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The bill also had the support of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who praised its passage by the House of Representatives earlier this week.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Researchers then compared the model with real measurements from the Fram Strait, a passage between Greenland and the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
But the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported earlier this month that the committee campaigning for passage raised $3 million through August—more than 10 times the $254,000 four pro-life groups raised in opposition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
"We feel abandoned, and we believe this march is a way to express that, despite the passage of time, we have not normalized the violence and we want peace."
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
This time there would be no jumping off roofs or digging holes in the backyard, trying to find a secret passage to a magic world.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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
Andra passaged like a strongly bitted charger to the back door, and there ran away with himself, flourishing in the air a pair of very dirty heels.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
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
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
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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