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The decoys don’t attach to cells but float in the fluid between them to catch the virus before it binds to the real ACE2 receptors.

Batlle’s team began working on decoy proteins in January 2020 after learning about the first US case, building on knowledge gleaned from China’s 2003 SARS-CoV outbreak.

Perkins angered some customers who complained that Orvis’s catalogues were suddenly filled with copper wastebaskets, silk underwear and items such as the Phona-Duck, a telephone that looked like a duck decoy.

I kind of had to be a decoy and continue to move around without the ball.

Irving, a more elusive player than Harden, should have been the decoy and release valve if Durant was covered.

The former decoy did as bid as Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan entered.

Lönnborg, who works as a lawyer in London, has on several occasions posed as Elin, acting as a decoy to throw off the paparazzi.

The impudence of the authorities, to decoy an unsuspecting workingman across the State line, and then arrest him as my accomplice!

The boy's pulses leaped toward these things even while his lips curled in disdain at the shallow decoy.

You make use of your power to run a common decoy house, to do away with men for money.

The decoy was barely in place before he was on the floor while a volley of lead and a flight of arrows rained against the roof.

They saw nothing but the wretched decoy vanishing behind the nearest tents.

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On this page you'll find 116 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to decoy, such as: allurement, attraction, beard, blind, booster, and camouflage.

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

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