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as in infant
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as in emergent
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Recent Examples of embryonic
Seventeen years ago, the world woke up to an astounding scientific breakthrough: a team of Japanese scientists, led by Shinya Yamanaka, had reprogrammed skin cells to resemble an embryonic state.
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Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The disk’s material will most likely fall onto the embryonic moon from the radial (in-out) direction, sculpting the satellite into an egg or football shape—what’s called a prolate spheroid—with the long axis pointing toward the parent body.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2024
The resistance remains embryonic and patchy, mainly because so many countries are still hooked on Chinese trade.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2022
Better understanding of this process in flies can help researchers gain insight into embryonic development in other species, which can aid research into cancer and birth defects.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2024
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Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The disk’s material will most likely fall onto the embryonic moon from the radial (in-out) direction, sculpting the satellite into an egg or football shape—what’s called a prolate spheroid—with the long axis pointing toward the parent body.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2024
The resistance remains embryonic and patchy, mainly because so many countries are still hooked on Chinese trade.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2022
Better understanding of this process in flies can help researchers gain insight into embryonic development in other species, which can aid research into cancer and birth defects.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2024
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The devilish Goblin King gave protagonist Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) 13 hours to break free of his supernatural maze in order to save her infant half-brother, Toby.Marc Bernardin, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
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The high contribution from the donor stem cells the research achieved is what gave the infant cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis) a strange green tinge.Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
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In the current digital age, countless enterprises have placed their focus on improving automation and implementing emergent artificial intelligence (AI) technology.William Mullane, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
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And changing the topology will also change the emergent properties (like elasticity).Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2024
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Some believe — and were trained to think — the disease begins in the germinal center, a structure in the lymph nodes where immune cells interact with antigens in a way that creates a powerful pathogen-fighting response (think vaccines and infections).Isabella Cueto, STAT, 18 June 2022
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But germinal centers did not form in the thoracic lymph nodes and spleens of the autopsied COVID-19 patients, the researchers reported.Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 25 Aug. 2020
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And that’s kind of embarrassing for teenage girls to ask for.Meg Zukin, TIME, 12 Jan. 2025
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Yordy Centeno-Melchor, 31, was taken into custody after attempting to abduct a teenage girl from the parking lot of a Holtville, Alabama, business on New Year’s Eve, according to a report.Luke Gentile, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Jan. 2025
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In our own solar system, comets are among the most primordial material—leftovers from the protoplanetary disk.Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
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There is a primordial quality to the woods that oscillates between cacophonous forest chatter and eerie silence in the space of a ridge or two.Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 2 Jan. 2025
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Sajid’s 20 years of experience as an educator across U.K. universities and workshops plays a large factor in his desire to find new ways to support budding designers.Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 8 Jan. 2025
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Calmer moments are depicted; game birds relax beneath pomegranate trees and next to budding roses.George Nelson for ArtNews, Robb Report, 7 Jan. 2025
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Verse is one of the top players for a young Rams defensive front that is excelling in the post-Aaron Donald era.Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Should Grier and McDaniel be allowed to draft another young quarterback in their win-a-playoff-game-or-get-shown-the-door season?Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
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The ridge itself is a timeline across the landscape, linking today’s elaborate gardens to the east with sunset views over the primeval topography of conserved lands to the west.airmail.news, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
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Yakushima Island, located 37 miles south from the southern tip of Kyushu Island, is home to a primeval temperate rainforest with thousand-year-old cedar trees, known as yakusugi.Anna Mazurek, AFAR Media, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Embryonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embryonic. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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