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sequence

[see-kwuhns] / ˈsi kwəns /


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The long saga of that film and the resulting franchise plays out in a knowing, funny sequence over the opening credits.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

After joining forces, the international team set out to identify the precise sequence of biochemical steps used by wolfsbane and larkspur to make diterpenoid alkaloids.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

“Brand New Day” features just one brief end-credits sequence to tease what’s next for Spidey.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Filming almost brought the city centre to a halt last summer, when fans gathered to watch Holland in an action sequence in full superhero mode.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

He hurried over to the keyboard and typed in the same sequence of letters he’d watched Jen type so many times.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Danny Leigh of the Financial Times awarded the film three stars, external, praising the chemistry between Holland and Zendaya but criticising the film's insistence on falling back on CGI-heavy action sequences.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

Scientists may also gain clues from protein sequences recently recovered from Homo erectus fossils.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

Cretton is the rare former indie filmmaker who pushes himself to stage clever action sequences.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

He said GenAI workflows have now been used on roughly 300 Netflix titles, mostly in post-production, adding: "We're leveraging GenAI for really complicated shots and sequences."

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

She charts sequences and events with colored pencils, shuffling her diagrams until they start to make sense, a possible narrative.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Those signals were difficult to investigate because scientists do not have sequenced DNA from most other extinct hominins.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

Prof Maggs needed to grow the seaweed big enough to be DNA sequenced.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

In Konik’s view, the announcement signals that the restructuring is progressing “on a thoughtful, sequenced basis under Hill, with the right operators being installed at the right time.”

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

Human-to-human transmission of the Andes strain requires very close contact, like sharing food or living quarters, according Steven Bradfute, an immunologist at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center whose lab has sequenced hantaviruses.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

Indeed, as predicted, when the gene encoding the hemoglobin B chain was later identified and sequenced in sickle-cell patients, there was a single change: one triplet in DNA—GAG—had changed to another—GTG.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Part of the difficulty has to do with gene sequencing, he explained.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing showed that APOE2 GABAergic neurons strongly activated pathways involved in DNA repair and damage response.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

This change didn’t affect how the CDC detects and investigates outbreaks; for that it relies on a separate reporting system that collects case and genetic sequencing information from labs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

To better understand the disease, the researchers used whole genome sequencing to compare tumor samples with healthy tissue from the same geckos.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

In a blink of pure fantasy, I suddenly saw myself walking away from Dell Duke's grimy car with a tiny glass vial of her blood sample for genome sequencing.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan




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