passage

In the decade following the Civil War and the passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments, Black people began to participate fully in civil society.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

Yet scientists are finding ways to capture evidence of their passage, opening new opportunities to investigate the cosmos and its most extreme environments.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

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

Somewhere in the middle of it, she remembered a passage she’d read the night before about Stavros Sinclair’s first significant breakthrough.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

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

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

Then there came that fine sound, the distant neigh of a horse, and the horse in the burn answered gallantly, and came splashing on, passaging and side-stepping a little, with curved crest.

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars