culture
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Hilton, born Mario Lavandeira Jr., has been a pop culture personality since the early aughts when he launched his eponymous celebrity gossip rag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
"Our culture is our clothing, our crafts, our dances and our language, not a practice that kills. Culture does not kill."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Food culture is inordinately fond of nonchalance: meals that are “almost too easy,” cakes that come together “in a snap.”
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
"Video games are a reflection of culture and people through their storylines, characters and representation," the campaign's website reads.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Of course there was the cellar debacle, but Grandma Star also sends her books about Native history and culture and let slip that Mom used a tribal scholarship for grad school.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Wu used cell cultures to identify genes and proteins affected by declining arginine levels.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
People can "experience each other's cultures", he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
It has been used across cultures to control, shame, praise, and define people, especially women, she adds.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Our expectation of fairness and our disdain for cheaters, expressed in laws across human cultures, can be traced to social primates—evidence that our sense of justice has deep evolutionary foundations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Indeed, zero was so abhorrent to some cultures that they chose to live without it.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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For much of the opening half they were like a cultured fighter, boxing the ears off an over-matched rival, bamboozling their punchbag with their movement before what felt like an inevitable knockout.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Using preclinical laboratory experiments with cultured neurons, researchers developed antibodies designed to block GPNMB.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
"They took bees back and growed them in the lab, they cultured all the pollen, the wax, and many, many things."
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
“Stalin created an entirely new concept . . . that cannot be translated into any cultured language: the squabble,” Freidenberg wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Kimberly Lou had bright green eyes and rich auburn hair and smooth milky skin—a lovely and cultured woman, Officer Delinko thought.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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There, he spent his days culturing cells and running experiments in a Minneapolis Veterans Affairs laboratory until 2016, when he left GeneSegues but stayed in Minnesota.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
Since culturing skin microbiota in the lab is challenging, researchers have traditionally used metagenomic analysis to study them -- an approach that involves extracting the combined genome of all bacteria in a community.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
Suspended in water, the legs of the new robot are made of 3D-printed elements, flexible rubber, and skeletal muscle tissue grown by culturing rat cells in a lab.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 26, 2024
These findings help to better understand cell differentiation and could thus be a basis for future developments in the field of targeted culturing of tissue in cell replacement therapies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023
And doing that would require culturing cells on an enormous, industrial scale, which no one had done before.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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