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[fyooz] / fjuz /


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Black persists in his brush drawings of the late 1940s—sumptuous, if monochromatic, ink-on-paper works, like 1948’s “Interior With Window and Palm,” that seem to fuse painting and drawing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Sometimes mitochondria fuse together into large interconnected networks that generate energy efficiently.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

Thomas Pearce, 19, from Old Colwyn, Conwy, has Pfeiffer Syndrome, which causes the skull to prematurely fuse in the womb, distorting the shape of the head and face.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

Army selected Lattice as the fire-control platform for the Integrated Battle Command System Maneuver program, a counterdrone command-and-control layer meant to fuse sensor data, automate fire control and compress the detection-to-defeat timeline.

From MarketWatch Jun. 29, 2026

“Hale then pulled from his pocket,” Lawson recalled, “a piece of white fuse about three feet and said, ‘I will show you how to use it.’

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The soundtrack, by Skye-based Valstos, fused trad and electronic music and mixed in samples from the country's musical traditions.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

But it was the U.S. that fused war and private business like never before, with each enabling and accelerating the other—usually in unexpected ways.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

Looking back, I think I’d accidentally fused the ingredients themselves to the preparations I most associated with them.

From Salon Jun. 16, 2026

Local fishermen pulled up two large masses of metal that had become fused together through centuries of marine corrosion after snagging them in their nets.

From Science Daily Jun. 8, 2026

When Luna was five years old, her magic had doubled itself five times, but it remained inside her, fused to her bones and muscles and blood.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

The obsession with founders, meanwhile, has grown steadily stronger, fusing with the belief in personal-brand-as-business-model.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

In response, he studied up on dance music and workshopped fusing the Miami bass of “Rich Baby Daddy” with French club tones, progressive metal bass, and modern hip-pop.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2026

Hadrian hopes to get a “productivity uplift” by fusing workforce training and software, founder Chris Power has said.

From Barron's Mar. 25, 2026

He spent time in Ghana absorbing highlife's structure, horn phrasing, and dance-oriented arrangements before fusing it with jazz, funk, the rhythms of his own Yoruba people, and political storytelling.

From BBC Jan. 29, 2026

Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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