conjugation
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Known as sperm conjugation, this coordinated behavior is changing how scientists view both reproduction and evolution.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
"They do not have conjugation, but each individual sperm is completely embedded in this material, and we do not even know how they are motile."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
He’d explain I’d gotten the conjugation wrong and I’d quietly Google what that meant.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2026
Even the mystery she’s trying to unravel depends on correctly parsing the meaning of syntax and conjugation.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
In the past I had tried my hardest to be understanding, going so far as to allow the conjugation of nouns and the use of such questionable words as whateverishly.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
"If anyone asks if I can say something in Spanish, I just bosh out some verb conjugations," Raducanu joked.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025
Mandarin might not have gender or case endings, but there’s more to grammar than conjugations.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2020
Flanagan’s prose becomes languidly reliant on the verb “feel” and all its conjugations.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2018
They shifted their gaze from their teacher, Zainab Sunji, to the notebooks before them in an attempt to replicate the verb conjugations Sunji had written on the board.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2016
If I never learned my French conjugations from Anatole, at least I would try to learn patience.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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