regenerate
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In NBC’s “Heroes,” Panettiere played cheerleader Claire Bennet, who had the ability to regenerate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Within muscle stem cells, it helps preserve the genetic instructions that define the cells and allow them to regenerate muscle after damage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
Skeletal muscle has an exceptional ability to regenerate, yet cancers that begin in muscle tissue are relatively uncommon.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
An advanced science student at Bronx High School of Science, he tried to regenerate neurons destroyed by disease as a school science project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Next season the cane will regenerate, a vegetal mystery, and she will return to cut it again.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Our enterprising Gravedigger, a true woman of science, engineers a lizard elixir and regenerates the finger into a long tentacle that eventually demands a body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
Bamboo grows faster than eucalyptus and regenerates like a weed.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
At the end of an actor's tenure as the Doctor, the character "regenerates" with somebody else then taking on the extra-terrestrial role.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2023
When I ask about jararanko, he says “the lizard has a healing property that is astringent—it absorbs bruises and regenerates fractures or fissures.”
From National Geographic ● Oct. 26, 2023
I wipe it away quickly, but it regenerates.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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Inflammation subsided, and the spinal cords regenerated perfectly, even though the neutrophils themselves were no longer present.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Brittin added that the show had "regenerated multiple times in its 60-plus year history" and would "do so again".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
That gives it the right to exist and flourish, to be restored, regenerated and respected.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
"We regenerated what you would expect to see at that level of injury," Muneoka said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
But images of Tartarus kept burning in his mind—the River Phlegethon, the blistered ground where monsters regenerated, the dark forest where arai circled overhead in the blood-mist clouds.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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I’m learning that regenerating sometimes is just being quiet and letting ideas percolate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
These trees "need natural disturbances such as fires," according to the government department Environment Canada, but suffer from repeated, intense fires that prevent them from regenerating.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Scientists observed similar problems in mice when SP6 and SP8 were missing from regenerating digits.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
A simple “Substance”-eque sequence of probiotics triggers a relaxing unconscious state, regenerating a utopian gut biome in a short six to eight weeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
The idea that the maze was regenerating itself, honeycombing its way under the earth again and providing a spacious new home for monsters...that didn’t make him happy.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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