scaffold
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It reminds me of the old joke about the guy in the Wild West who, before he was hanged for horse stealing, said “This will be a real lesson to me,” mournfully, from the scaffold.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
Parents have since paid for a temporary scaffold bridge that allows people to traverse the condemned bridge.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026
With this approach, they found that well before the genome fully activates -- a milestone known as Zygotic Genome Activation -- an elaborate 3D scaffold of DNA is already taking shape.
From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2026
"It acts like a scaffold for nerves to grow along like a rose on a trellis," Dr Alex Woods explains, holding threads of silk worthy of Spider-man.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
Some plywood sheets covered a pit and a metal scaffold supported a cracked archway.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing scaffold
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My Brother Sam is Dead
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