scaffold
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For decades, collagen has served as the gold standard scaffold in many regenerative medical and dental applications.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Alexandra Friedman, a Seattle-based friendship and relationship coach, thinks it’s OK to use AI to scaffold an uncomfortable conversation but not to lean on it throughout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Physically and spiritually, San Juan Capistrano is centered around its mission, one of 21 established by the Catholic Church under the Spanish crown in the 18th and 19th centuries, forming the scaffold of modern-day California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
Blueprint's artificial structures, which can be created in many different shapes, are built on a 3D-printed scaffold of a biodegradable polyester called polycaprolactone, which supports a collagen structure.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
“He sure did, especially when his little girl died. He stayed at her burial scaffold for days. He didn’t eat, didn’t drink water. He just cried and cried.”
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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Some of the work is physically risky and will require crews being lowered in uspended scaffolds known as swing stages used by window cleaners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
This underscores why technology like mRNA vaccine scaffolds, the technology used to inoculate against COVID, is so important.
From Salon ● May 20, 2026
"Scientists are pursuing many solutions for replacing limbs, including bioengineered scaffolds and stem cell therapies," Currie explained.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
For example, in the civilian context, when construction workers fall off scaffolds and can’t walk until receiving surgery and physical therapy, their employers have to provide them workers’ compensation.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2026
The scaffolds also held work platforms for the masons made of mats of woven twigs.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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It’s “yet another advantage IBM can bring to bear in enabling, scaling, and governing production AI systems that will necessarily need to be scaffolded atop existing IT architectures,” Boolani wrote.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Their work proved that the new scaffolded cryo-EM approach can illuminate how drug molecules bind with and inhibit cellular proteins like KRAS, and could help guide the development of more effective drugs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023
Looming as we approached the nexus of Olive and Stewart, Seattle’s version of Times Square, was an enormous, elevated sign featuring a scaffolded Great Northern Railway mountain goat atop a showy slogan: “EMPIRE BUILDER.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
This book is scaffolded around her father’s unfinished novel, found in a desk drawer just days after his death in 2001, about, among other things, trying to fly without wings.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
From the unfinished, scaffolded building a figure emerged, came running.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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Both are star-studded, hyper-L.A. chase comedies that treat their central contrivances as nothing more than scaffolding for the scenes that actually count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Older APOE2 knock-in mice had smaller nucleoli, higher levels of the nuclear scaffolding protein Lamin A/C, and better-preserved heterochromatin in the hippocampus than mice carrying APOE3 or APOE4.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
The event was advertised almost exclusively offline, with flyers wheatpasted to construction scaffolding and guidebooks available at independent bookstores.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
They are the hidden scaffolding of social life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
He sat writing up his records with the same obdurate patient thoroughness I had seen in a mad king up on a scaffolding mortaring a joint, and said, “When we reach Karhide....”
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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