germinal
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Viola also performed in avant-garde composer David Tudor’s germinal musical production, “Rainforest.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2024
During an infection, our lymph nodes and spleen sprout cellular cradles called germinal centers that allow B cells to hone their antibodies to be more effective against an attacking pathogen.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 31, 2023
In the liner notes he wrote for a 2004 reissue of “John Somebody” on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, Mr. Johnson said that germinal material for the piece dated as far back as 1977.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2023
The cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker published his germinal text "The Denial of Death" in 1973.
From Salon • Oct. 10, 2022
He became rather technical; spoke of the abnormal endocrine co-ordination which made men grow so slowly; postulated a germinal mutation to account for it.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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