as in civilized
having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living
the most highly cultured period of the country's long history
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as in cultivated
to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care
culture bacteria in laboratory dishes
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Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
Shop Sonam Kapoor's Open Door Such design derring-do is part of Kapoor’s DNA, traceable back in a matriarchal line of cultured women with a talent for interiors.
—Cosmo Brockway, Architectural Digest, 12 Aug. 2024
Usually, in order to check drinking water for bacteria, a sample of that water must be cultured in a Petri dish for 12 to 48 hours.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2024
Furthermore, when the infectivity of these viruses was evaluated in cultured cells, KP.3 needed a lower amount of virus to cause an infection compared to LB.1 and KP.2.3, which both required roughly the same amount of virus as JN.1.
—Ritsuko Kawai, WIRED, 24 July 2024
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Colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory.
—Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
Shop Sonam Kapoor's Open Door Such design derring-do is part of Kapoor’s DNA, traceable back in a matriarchal line of cultured women with a talent for interiors.
—Cosmo Brockway, Architectural Digest, 12 Aug. 2024
Usually, in order to check drinking water for bacteria, a sample of that water must be cultured in a Petri dish for 12 to 48 hours.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2024
Furthermore, when the infectivity of these viruses was evaluated in cultured cells, KP.3 needed a lower amount of virus to cause an infection compared to LB.1 and KP.2.3, which both required roughly the same amount of virus as JN.1.
—Ritsuko Kawai, WIRED, 24 July 2024
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“Cultured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cultured. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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