passage
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Other shipping companies have transited the Arctic passage before, with Denmark's Maersk the first to do so in 2018.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Six Flags bills the ride as “a right of passage for the ultimate daredevil” that goes up to 76 mph.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Now, fans fear that he will join the list of young flamethrowers who will go through the Tommy John rite of passage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Such journeys have become a rite of passage for the millions of tourists who island-hop through Greece every summer, dreaming of beaches, parties and feta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
They lit another torch and edged across the right-hand passage.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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
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
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
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
It was a curious sight to see them passaging with little airs and graces, like fighting cocks matched in a pit.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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