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[dih-vel-uhp] / dɪˈvɛl əp /






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"It can help veterinarians recognize similar cases in the future and may help develop genetic tests."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

There is no promise this will happen, but ministers said they would work to "develop a regulatory regime for the heating oil market, protecting consumers and promoting competition."

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The findings, published in Nature Communications, could help scientists develop more effective catalysts for transforming CO2 into useful products such as methanol.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Otherwise, we have to do a lot of research on understanding the threat first, before we can develop the countermeasures.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

“Too bad your drink won’t help you develop a brain,” I said, but I took the cordial glass he offered me anyway.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

When something frightening develops gradually, we explain away warning signs because they don’t fit the world we already know.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

"We need to be careful that school readiness doesn't become a checklist that four-year-olds are expected to pass or something that leaves parents feeling they have failed if their child develops differently," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

As the system matures, that environment develops into a gas-poor debris disk.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Mr. Sun develops his music mostly in jazz clubs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

There the Sun heats it, the ice is vaporized, and a lovely cometary tail develops.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Over time, this movement accumulated more crustal material on the far side, helping explain why that hemisphere developed a thicker crust with a higher magnesium content.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Director Tran Trung Thanh told AFP the state institution had acquired and developed "a world-first process for handling remains that have undergone severe degradation".

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

How different species developed and why life on Earth diversified from those single-cell organisms is often surprising and consistently engaging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

To market these assets to retail investors, managers developed “semi-liquid” vehicles like interval funds and business development companies.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Dr. Gibson-Gray developed the initial theories of spatial teleportation —then colloquially known as “time travel”—during her tenure as a quantum physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Where it has struggled in the past is developing software features to match.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

As David’s continues developing its AI tools, it’s adding new “embedded tasks” inside Pearl, such as a budgeting capability based on where the wedding will be held.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Felipe taught himself how to program as a teenager and is developing his own game, although he acknowledges that working in Cuba throws up constant obstacles.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Campbell approached ElevenLabs, a company that specialises in developing natural-sounding speech, to recreate her voice, the firm's Gabi Leibowitz told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

“Who are you developing a dangerous crush on?”

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone




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