selectively
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This pattern suggests that excessive salt selectively disrupted more complex cognitive and social functions rather than causing widespread behavioral impairment.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
This selectively weakened the cells responsible for driving the disease while normal blood forming stem cells were better able to compensate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Senate leadership continues to be concerned about the implications of administrators selectively commenting on faculty activities and has asked UCLA’s Committee on Academic Freedom to consider the issue,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
The German physician-scientist Paul Ehrlich, meanwhile, recognized that dyes and related chemicals, because of their binding properties, might selectively attack pathogens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Rather than consuming both sugars equally, the E. coli cells had selectively consumed glucose first.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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