mouse
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The party’s attempts to plug such leaks have become a game of cat and mouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
While the peptide’s risks and side effects are few, and its effects on mouse metabolism compelling, no one knows how long-term use affects humans yet, or what formula or dosage would be most effective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Working with Heinz-Heinrich Hoffman, a research assistant professor in Charles Rice's Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Wu repeated the dietary studies using mouse models of influenza and SARS-CoV-2.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Don’t miss: If Social Security’s funding crisis is the elephant in the room, this is the mouse everyone has overlooked.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Another mouse doll landed at my feet, this one yellow and blue.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
In addition to protecting nerve cells and supporting mitochondrial function, the compound appeared to benefit the heart and affect some signs of aging in the mice.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
To interrupt this process, Quitterer and her colleagues created several chemical compounds and tested them in cell cultures and mice.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
In mice, circulating levels of these metabolites remained high even after antibiotic treatment disrupted the microbiome.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
A third group consisted of normal, unmodified mice that served as controls.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
We take pride in finding our way home, we mice.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
For one, the dock occasionally disappeared when I opened a full-screen Chrome tab in laptop mode, and it didn’t pop up when I moused around the bottom of the screen.
From The Verge ● Aug. 31, 2022
I have moused and clicked through a few, mostly ones I could watch without covering the screen whenever the children walked by.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2020
Figuring that black-clad subversives might congregate on the indie boards, I moused over to Pop Genius to check out the state of the conversation around Death Cab For Cutie.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2015
Jamie videoed her dance routine and then they ran it in slow motion and moused it into shape, speeding up moves or slowing them down, repositioning legs, arms and head.
From Nature ● Mar. 17, 2015
He had neither sold nor bought stock, but had moused around, with the skill of an old habitué, for information concerning the eligibility of the two men who were seeking his daughter's hand.
From A Young Girl's Wooing by Edward Payson Roe
He was moved out of the department's central London building during the Covid pandemic and in 2020 he formally retired from his mousing duties.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
Typing and mousing for long periods is stressful for the finger and wrist muscles as well as the forearms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Vermont State University’s Castleton campus is honoring the feline not for his mousing or napping, but for his friendliness.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
When mousing in snow, the fox's long snout also allows it to reach its prey earlier, as mice are very sensitive to movements in their environment and can quickly escape.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
Charles said harshly, “Say, what you mousing around at?”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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