lariat
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To begin to answer this question, Ares decided to investigate whether it was indeed the spliceosome that was making changes to the lariat introns to remove their tails.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2024
A Reuters video showed a Border Patrol agent using what the news agency described as a lariat to whip at a Haitian migrant trying to enter the United States from Mexico.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2021
A U.S. law enforcement officer on horseback wielded what appeared to be a lariat, whipping it close to the face of a man wading in the Rio Grande carrying a plastic bag of food.
From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2021
M. was dressed unremarkably, in jeans and a T-shirt, with a necklace on a long leather lariat — an upgraded version of what he might have worn in class.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2021
Presently a hulking, crazy-eyed man toting a stiff lariat appeared on the scene.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
The collection has eight pieces total, including necklaces, hoops, studs, rings, bracelets and lariats, set in sterling silver and recycled 18-karat gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024
Recently, researchers at Brown University who were studying the locations of the joining sites in these lariats made an odd observation -- some introns were actually circular instead of lariat shaped.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2024
Amir’s jewelry company sells a line of lariats, each one featuring a word or phrase.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2017
But the heroes of the gathering are the poet lariats … er, laureates … like fifth-generation California cattleman John Dofflemyer who rides herd in the southern Sierra foothills.
From Reuters ● Jan. 31, 2015
"I wish I'd a couple of lariats here," said Magruder, as he went back for the bed-linen.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
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