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cleavage

[klee-vij] / ˈkli vɪdʒ /


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The coating raised DNA cleavage efficiency from 36% without PEG to 92% with PEG at 37°C over 31 hours.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

“It created a cleavage with the United States that was really necessary.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

“Although race is often cited as the central cleavage in America, the single most powerful predictor of voting intention is religion,” the Economist noted.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

This cleavage process is activated by saturated fatty acids and deactivated by polyunsaturated fatty acids, suggesting that RHBDL4's activity is modulated by the type of fatty acid.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2024

Ifemelu looked at Ranyinudo’s dress, its thin straps, its pleated neckline that showed no cleavage.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“There are toxic cleavages and an incipient social fragmentation that can easily turn into instability.”

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024

Second, there's the depolarization variety , which seeks to dismantle the cleavages that result from an oversimplified politics of "us versus them," and actively seeks to create social and political action amenable to pluralist democracy.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022

Pop music has always gone hand in hand with strong opinions and heated debates — including the kinds of generational cleavages that inspire finger-wagging lectures.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2021

Opened to great fanfare three years ago, it was considered a symbol of Ethiopia’s booming economy but now appears to be a witness to the deep cleavages in society.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2018

On the best developed of the three cleavages the lustre is pearly, on other surfaces it is of the ordinary vitreous type.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various


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