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Interestingly, about half of these adaptive signals were detectable only in the oldest time periods, meaning they later vanished due to genetic drift or were masked by extensive population mixing.

He said, at times, staff ratios had to be stretched, meaning specialist critical care nurses had to look after six patients rather than give the one-to-one care they would in normal times.

The trial was conducted in a double-blind fashion, meaning that neither patient nor clinician knew when they received the active drug.

This is mostly rooted in the partnership between Khalid and Ina, a relationship that, in its avoidance of overt romantics, blossoms and finds meaning in the gentle progression of their closeness.

He sometimes mangled his sentences, but even when his syntax was less than perfect, his meaning was clear.