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cleavage

[klee-vij] / ˈkli vɪdʒ /


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

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 1, 2026

The structures revealed that the reverse transcriptase bound to the RNA-DNA complex that formed along the "part" of the Cas9 protein associated with DNA cleavage, the splitting of a single strand of the double helix.

From Science Daily May 29, 2024

“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

She had memorized a phrase: cleavage; epiboly, and organogenesis.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

“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

Either formulation is a polite way of saying that political cleavages are not so much “I disagree with your views” as “I hate your stupid face.”

From Washington Post Aug. 30, 2018

Artificial land-frontiers often denote much sharper cleavages of sentiment, character, physique, language, history.

From The Framework of Home Rule by Childers, Erskine




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