development
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The breakthrough, described in the Nature portfolio journal Light: Science and Applications, could lead to advances in cancer research, drug development, infectious disease studies, and investigations of how plants interact with microorganisms.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
"This is not merely a matter of borrowing money; it is about shaping the very structure and direction of the nation's development."
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
"Over time, new development or other land use changes may occur within parts of the former corridor, making it progressively more difficult or expensive to deliver the same highway alignment in the future," it said.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Microsoft must demonstrate that Maia’s savings survive the costs of development, deployment and adapting software to run on it.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
The book takes into account many different perspectives on a child’s development rather than approaching it by focusing on only one subject.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
He called the developments his “crowning achievement for life” and presented the investigation as a victory for his program.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
L.A. has long suffered an identity crisis, caught between the single-family homes of its past and the multifamily developments that density advocates say are needed for its future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Faced with the great developments of world history,” Weirich wrote in 1925, “the individual is powerless.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
She knows little about the developments unfolding in the boardroom of the Tata group, one of India's oldest and most influential business empires that makes everything from salt to software.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
That contrast between the immediate virtues of wheat and barley and the difficulties posed by teosinte may have been a significant factor in the differing developments of New World and Eurasian human societies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 6
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 4
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