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"This previously unrecognized cellular function of CS proteins leads to the marking of the DNA damage -- and thence to its enzymatic breakdown."
From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024
Certainly, the Emmys both aided and reflected the audience transition from broadcast to cable and thence to streaming.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024
Essentially, the briefcase is a communication tool which links the president to his military top brass and thence to rocket forces via the highly secret “Kazbek” electronic command-and-control network.
From Reuters • Feb. 21, 2023
The Sacketts’ property was connected to a fen and, thence, to the lake, via a “shallow subsurface flow” of moisture, the agency advised, making it subject to the 1972 Clean Water Act.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2022
These are familiar to us precisely because they also spread into climatically similar adjacent areas of Europe, thence to America and Australia, and became some of the staple crops of temperate-zone agriculture around the world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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