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This week, researchers from the DNA testing company 23andMe published a paper in Nature Genetics suggesting that those infected with the virus who possess a certain genetic locus were 11 percent more likely to lose their sense of taste or smell.

The personas you’ve created can act as the locus of the content topic universe, enabling you to brainstorm themes that are specific to that type of customer.

For small to mid-sized rooms at middle-to-mildly loud volumes, bookshelf speakers stand at the locus between price, footprint, and performance, while also presenting an enormous amount of options in the price range, design, and features.

The points in the resulting locus were all the same distance away from the intersection.

Today, conservative media isn’t just a locus of power on the right.

With Mitch McConnell soon to be in charge, look for the Senate to become the locus of attacks on campaign finance reform.

The 18th Street Gang was named after the locus of its birth in the Ramparts section.

This question of accountability has interesting links with the theory of “locus of control.”

He despised it for showing war not as an arena of bravery and honor but as a locus of dread and fear.

At the locus of policy on peace, territory and Palestinians, the picture is worse.

Thus we find even in medival times, Westminster alluded to by monkish writers as a locus terribilis or sacred place.

Est hic insignis locus, si quis alius est in toto Paulo: proinde diligenter excutere singulas particulas convenit.

The evolute of a curve is the curve which is the envelope of all its normals or the locus of all its centres of curvature.

Nec mora, condicitur pugn locus, eidemque stata temporis meta prfigitur.

Vnde locus ille hoc nomine Anglico Qualmhul, a strage uidelicet et sepultura interfectorum merito meruit intitulari.

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On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to locus, such as: arrangement, attitude, ballgame, bearing, carriage, and circumstances.

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

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