regenerate
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The discovery was made in planarian flatworms, small aquatic animals known for their extraordinary ability to regenerate.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 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
I’m not a hermit, but I live in Wales, and I’m trying to regenerate the land and all this stuff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
That government established a £5bn levelling up fund, external to, among other things, regenerate high streets and upgrade local transport.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
For the first time in his life he did not despise the proles or think of them merely as an inert force which would one day spring to life and regenerate the world.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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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
According to new research, published in Nature Communications, the researchers found that, when C. longifissura regenerates, a genetic factor that takes part in the acoel regeneration also controls how the algae inside of them reacts.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
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
I wipe it away quickly, but it regenerates.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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Additional testing showed the regenerated tissue was hyaline cartilage, the type needed for healthy joint function, rather than the less effective fibrocartilage.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
It would allow us to overwhelm our adversaries with large, affordable salvos of weapons that can be built and regenerated quickly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Additional tests confirmed that the regenerated tissue was hyaline cartilage rather than the less functional fibrocartilage.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 20, 2026
Doctor Who, which first aired in 1963, last appeared on our screens in May this year, when the outgoing doctor Ncuti Gatwa regenerated into Billie Piper in the series finale.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
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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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
And instead of a knee or hip replacement, you could get new bone and joint treatments designed to reverse physical decline entirely by regenerating tissue in damaged joints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Currie said the team discovered that the regenerating epidermis, or skin tissue, in all three species activated two genes called SP6 and SP8.
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
Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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