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nucleus

[noo-klee-uhs, nyoo-] / ˈnu kli əs, ˈnju- /


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There are no guarantees in golf, but in Woad, Nadaud, Lopez Ramirez and Rhodes Europe appear to have an exciting nucleus for the trophy defence at Valhalla in 2028.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Many measurements effectively average the gluon distribution across an entire nucleus.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

They also studied how the process varied with momentum transfer, which determines the spatial scale being examined inside the nucleus.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

Jenny Lê, the flagship’s head of operations, has become the nucleus of the store, embodying the essence of discipline, intention and collaboration that has been there from the very beginning.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

He did so by inventing a serviceable method for artificially driving subatomic particles into the nucleus with enough energy to give physicists a clear picture of what it was made of.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The powerful gluon fields inside atomic nuclei are central to the structure of nearly all visible matter, but physicists still do not fully understand how large numbers of gluons behave together.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

The new experiments show that much smaller nuclei can also generate the primordial material.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

Those particles later became the components of atomic nuclei and, ultimately, the ordinary matter found in stars, planets and ourselves.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

Collisions between two oxygen nuclei generate a relatively rounded pattern, while collisions involving neon create a distinctive bowling-pin-shaped pattern.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

I had never bargained on descent from single cells without nuclei.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Many words ending in us that formerly were written with only the Latin plural, are now given an English plural also; as, focuses, foci; cactuses, cacti; sarcophaguses, sarcophagi; convolvuluses, convolvuli ; funguses, fungi; nucleuses, nuclei.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel

"Gee whiz, nucleuses aren't so easy to be, that's one thing," Pee-wee muttered to himself as he bent his aimless way in the direction of Barrel Alley.

From Pee-Wee Harris Adrift by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Hall, Price, and Kelsey headed in with straggling wagons to form the nucleuses of their columns; but the morning wore on and the Missourians, now under Woodhull, had not yet broken park.

From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

She saw him start a dozen nucleuses of fires; saw them advance till they halted at the edge of the burned ground, beyond the wagon, so that it stood safe in a vast black island.

From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

"So far I have done nothing but nucleuses," said Olive, as they sat down.

From The Captain's Toll-Gate by Frank Richard Stockton




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