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Usually, engrams are made up of a sparse number of neurons, but the stress-induced memory engrams involved significantly more neurons.

“Punish,” the latest offering from the Southern Gothic alt-pop star Ethel Cain, is a smoldering slow burn, a sparse piano ballad that stretches for nearly seven minutes and gradually corrodes.

Crusius, 21 years old, with wavy dark brown hair, sparse stubble collecting on his round chin, was awkward and introverted.

The boos from the sparse crowd at the Intuit Dome rained down on George all game because he now was a Philadelphia 76er.

Saving a patient requires removing the sparse toxic metals from the body with more than surgical precision, while leaving the abundant life-sustaining nutrients intact.