passage
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"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
The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 also produced a hostile climate for African-Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The passage of Assembly Bill 1340 last year gave gig ride-hailing drivers the right to unionize and collectively bargain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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
Nathan took one last look at the hogan-like space before walking into the passage that would lead them directly to Mother Water Monster herself.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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
And passaging in cell cultures often deletes the furin cleavage site or makes viruses weaker.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 1, 2021
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
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
Gay young men, on passaging horses, half drew their swords and growled unintelligible remarks, desisting only at the sight of Claire Agnew's pale face underneath her hood.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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