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
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
US First Lady Melania Trump, who helped broker the ceasefire along with Pope Leo XIV, said on Tuesday that the area involved had been expanded to provide "safe passage" for humanitarian convoys.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 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
The Germans had demanded free passage through neutral Belgium in order to attack France.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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
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
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
"I like you better, Charley," said she, curveting her horse, and passaging him alternately from side to side.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
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