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stem

noun as in stalk of plant

verb as in come from

verb as in prevent, stop

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By March, regulators were desperately trying to stem the tide of price gouging flooding online retailers, especially Amazon's sprawling third-party Marketplace.

The pause stemmed from a standard review of the company’s vaccine trials after one person developed an unexplained illness, AstraZeneca said in a statement.

From Fortune

The commission recommends more research on using stem cells to produce eggs and sperm in lab dishes, which could then be used to create embryos that don’t carry genetic diseases.

Julia Gaydina, co-founder of sustainable luxury clothing brand Infantium Victoria He spent the next 18 months trying to understand how to extract the calotropis gigantea fiber from its stem and pod without using any chemicals.

From Ozy

In 2019, approximately $919 million of craft distiller revenues stemmed from on-site sales.

From Fortune

Republican legislatures are looking for any way to stem the tide, and religious exemptions are one way to do that.

The researchers first isolated a set of cells known as neural stem cells (NSCs) from the brains of rats.

In part, it may stem from what looks like an increasingly “political” Court.

Seager writes about being threatened by a patient with a shank carved out of an eyeglass stem.

Anti-vaxxers and anti-stem cell-ers come together, thanks to a recent paper linking autism to vaccines that use stem cells.

On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.

The upper part of the stem is usually unbranched, but whorls of branches occur towards the base.

As he spoke he wedged himself between Grandfather Mole and the stem of the toadstool umbrella.

A mushir (marshal) would find it derogatory to his dignity to smoke out of a stem less than two yards in length.

The Chukchees use a pipe similar to those of the Eskimo, but with a much larger and shorter stem.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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