passage
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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
Using thousands of atoms cooled to temperatures barely above absolute zero, Professor Giovanni Barontini demonstrated that the passage of time can be measured without relying on an external clock.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 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
"Despite the passage of time and the fact the suspects were no longer in the UK, we were determined that those responsible should face justice," Jessah added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Penelope flipped the pages, looking for some passage that both she and the children might find sufficiently distracting to make them forget that the admiral had not yet returned.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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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
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
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
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