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Recent Examples of spheroidIn situ spheroid formation in distant submillimetre-bright galaxies NASA.—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024 Unlike previous bioprinting options that lack the necessary, spheroids better approximate cell densities seen in the human body.—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 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 In general the studies kept the airway spheroids embedded and immobilized in a protein-rich gel called Matrigel.—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for spheroid
The plan was already beginning to emerge on a sheet of Mylar graph paper—an oval, surrounded by arrows, with a handful of anomalous objects marked.
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Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Last-lap wrecks taking out the leader and altering the race’s result may not be what some want to see, but that is life in a sport with 40 cars racing around an oval at high speeds, all with a ton of incentive to cross the finish line first.
But in seven late-season starts at the Triple-A level, Sproat experienced his first hardship in pro ball, compiling a 7.53 ERA and seeing his strikeout rate plummet.
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Tim Britton,
The Athletic,
22 Feb. 2025
Makes a really good play on the first ball hit out to left-center field.
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Justice delos Santos,
The Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2025
Europe faces two great crises — in the economic and security spheres — that are, ultimately, two sides of the same coin.
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Courtenay Brown,
Axios,
18 Feb. 2025
Maintaining focus on these problems in the public policy sphere is challenging given the significant time since the last event in 1994 that produced significant damage in a California urban center.
Rocket’s kit makes this uniquely possible: His alt fire is a bouncing heal orb which is the sole source of his (very strong) healing.
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
In this image, taken by JUICE's Monitoring Camera 1, the Earth appears as a brilliant blue and white orb at bottom while the moon is little more than a bright speck to its left.
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