sequence
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Not everyone was happy with the new format and there were complaints that a serious, and sometimes emotionally draining sequence, was followed by a quirky item on, for example, rude-looking vegetables.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Getting to work with Emmanuel Lubezki was something out of a dream sequence, and I learned so much from getting to watch his genius in action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Visitors are inches from the nine linen panels that, roughly 20 inches tall and of varying length, form a continuous sequence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The study describes how the researchers reconstructed the sequence of changes preserved in Karelia's rocks following the first major increase in atmospheric oxygen.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
A jaunty sequence was needed, and my fingers took up the keys.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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The company’s press release goes into more detail, but basically says that Claude was prompted to search through a massive database of DNA sequences for reverse transcriptases, enzymes that copy RNA into DNA.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
Plenty of films measure the lamentable distance between real life and Hollywood fantasy, but there’s not enough poignancy or creative exuberance in these stilted dance sequences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers could follow individual variants in remarkable detail because genome sequences were usually linked to precise dates.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
And dream sequences that sometimes pop out of nowhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Examples, explanations, violated expectations, elaborations, sequences, causes, and effects are arcs of coherence that pinpoint how one statement follows from another.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Rather than collecting all new samples, the team sequenced DNA from tissues that veterinarians had already obtained for diagnostic purposes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
A patient’s tumor is surgically removed and then sequenced, allowing researchers to figure out which mutated proteins are expressed on the cancer cells.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
After a tumor is sequenced and a therapy given, patients still need to be monitored for signs the cancer has returned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Unlike traditional posthumous albums that stitch together loose verses, “Prolific” was recorded and sequenced nearly two years before Hussle’s death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 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
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The samples are prepared for loading into a shoebox-sized sequencing machine made by Oxford Nanopore, which uses specialist software developed at the University of Nottingham, in partnership with hospital clinicians.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The startup, Pilgrim, has built a 50-pound tripod-mounted hardware device called Argus that is packed with sensors that combines air sampling and genomic sequencing to detect biological threats, like Ebola or anthrax.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Sork’s lab, along with the Nature Conservancy, is sequencing oak DNA to identify which trees are best built to survive a hotter, drier California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
We would not have achieved this without exome sequencing, as the gene we identified wasn't an obvious candidate and little is known about Mal protein in red cells.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 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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