passage

"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

From story to story, William never ages, though his hijinks keep pace with the passage of time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

At least three individuals were rescued after suffering injuries this summer at Sunset Cliffs, leading police to ramp up enforcement as locals debate the need for safety versus the merits of youthful rites of passage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

When an event once remembered in minute detail becomes a date others know only from history, the passage of one’s own life becomes newly visible.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

We scoot quickly down the little passage between the buildings before he passes, circle around the back, wait, and come right back onto the street behind the German’s back like we never stopped walking.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

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

Not only the young swells, but the old politicians and the celebrated generals, used to go "titupping" down the Row, passaging, traversing, and piaffing to the admiration of all beholders.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Theodore Ayrault Dodge