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[kar-ee] / ˈkær i /




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The possibility that gluons carry baryon number would overturn the standard simplified description found in many textbooks.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

"We are expected to just to carry on," he says, describing the instinct to go "straight back to work and school".

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

“Hiking is a walking meditation, a way to carry everything we need,” my mom told me.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

I understand the usual arguments — reducing future RMDs, avoiding higher future tax brackets, and creating tax-free assets for heirs — but I’m not sure they carry much weight in my particular case.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

Why does a poet need to know how to carry a canteen?

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Determining what actually carries baryon number matters far beyond the internal structure of a proton.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

It’s a conflict that carries hues of classic rural-urban divides.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

This is the second biggest category of retail spending after autos, so it carries a lot of weight.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

Direct Relief has also continued to provide medical resources to Venezuela as the country carries on with its own earthquake recovery efforts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

“It seems likely,” they wrote, “that the precise sequence of the bases is the code that carries the genetical information.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Instead, the gluon structure connecting those quarks could be central to how baryon number is carried through energetic collisions.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

If valence quarks alone carried the baryon number, explaining the excess away from the beamline would require all three valence quarks from one colliding proton to stop near the center of the detector.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

The council's website adds that a detailed assessment and review was carried out by the Environment Agency in 2008 and "as a result the site is not considered a harm to the local environment."

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

"The way he has carried himself in this competition has been brilliant."

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

The $2,500 check I carried in my parka, fastened to the lining with a safety pin.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Rather than the valence quarks carrying baryon number, the junction itself could be responsible.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

The aircraft, carrying 137 passengers and eight crew, landed safely in Delhi.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Some threw flowers onto the hearse carrying her coffin, which was draped in the Welsh flag and accompanied by a framed photograph of the singer.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

Once elevated to his new posts, Salisbury took charge of carrying out the second Trump administration’s agenda for HSI, personally issuing staffing directives, reassignments and promotions, current and former agency officials told ProPublica.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

She had pretended to let them down, knowing all the time that Rowan was carrying away just what they needed.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda




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