growth
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Professor Wright added: "We predict that honeybees have evolved to create glandular secretions which are the perfect food for their larvae, providing them with the ratios of essential amino acids that maximize growth."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Meanwhile, flat jobs data and moderate wage growth may lead it to think that firms have little opportunity to get away with hiking up prices.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The company saw profits soar 557% in the latest quarter, and analysts model 484% growth for the full year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
While the economy has proved resilient to multiple headwinds this year, growth is expected to stall in the second half as higher prices and borrowing costs increasingly weigh on households and businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
In the federal system, for example, homicide convictions account for 0.4 percent of the past decade’s growth in the federal prison population, while drug convictions account for nearly 61 percent of that expansion.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Beneath the water, divers tracked current density and coral growths, searching for mother-of-pearl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
During her GCSEs she made repeated hospital visits but was told cysts and growths found during ultrasounds would pass on their own.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
Many colorectal cancers begin as polyps, which are growths that develop on the inner lining of the bowel.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
It can appear as open sores, red patches, rashes, growths, or bumps.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2025
I didn’t want to come but Padma says that when it comes to facial growths, sons need their fathers.
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms - Introductory
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Functions - High School
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Growth, Development and Reproduction of Organisms - Middle School
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