selectively
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Antares has started deploying the fresh capital, and plans to continue investing selectively over the next few years, said founder and Managing Partner Michael Gryseels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
This selectively weakened the cells responsible for driving the disease while normal blood forming stem cells were better able to compensate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Senate leadership continues to be concerned about the implications of administrators selectively commenting on faculty activities and has asked UCLA’s Committee on Academic Freedom to consider the issue,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
The German physician-scientist Paul Ehrlich, meanwhile, recognized that dyes and related chemicals, because of their binding properties, might selectively attack pathogens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
But none of those tamed animals was actually domesticated—that is, selectively bred in captivity and genetically modified so as to become more useful to humans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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