passage
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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
Every October, societal outcasts and weirdos relegated to the underground are permitted passage back into the mainstream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 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
It may also be associated with one of the oldest surviving descriptions of the solar corona, but that interpretation remains uncertain because the relevant passage appears in a source written centuries after the event.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
A man appeared in the passage to the dining room—Mr. Archer, presumably—followed by a boy and a girl.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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
The Captain passaged his chestnut alongside my bay, chuckled and told me all about it.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various
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
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
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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