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A small Australian biotech started to test it 15 years ago as a treatment for retinitis pigmentosa, a group of rare genetic eye diseases, although that research did not pan out.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Start by heating your cooking oil in a large sauté pan over medium-high heat.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Tucked away in a Sun Valley strip mall, El Compadre market and restaurant was a neighborhood staple, selling handmade tamales, carne asada tacos, fresh pan dulce and an array of products imported from Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
He picked up a discarded frying pan from a street along the way, claiming it could be protection.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
He set out a pan of snow to boil for water.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Disney has once again taken one of its biggest animated hits of recent years and turned it into a live-action remake - but the new take on 2016's Moana has been panned by most critics.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
What the Celtics got back was the oft-injured 36-year-old Paul George and a pair of first-round picks: a trade widely panned as one of the most disastrous in recent NBA memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
My eyes watered as the camera panned over his arm-in-arm players as they shouted the line, “Think, o beloved homeland! That heaven/gave you a soldier in each son.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Some recent examples include the critically panned Netflix take on “Persuasion” starring Dakota Johnson, and Hallmark’s 2024 “Sense & Sensibility,” which despite some buzz for its predominantly Black cast, failed to find an audience.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
This morning, the camera panned to show our rivers, fields, orange groves, and green stalks of sugarcane.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
Key to how Morgan Stanley sees things panning out is the non-consensus view of the investment bank’s economists who believe the Fed will stay on hold in 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Companies have a hard time telling which of their AI investments are panning out, according to a survey of corporate executives conducted by the technology and management-consulting firm Emergn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
But this is not how Isak envisaged his first year at Anfield panning out following his protracted £125m move from Newcastle United last September.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
“I’m sorry about my ugly appearance,” a preteen Kaley said in a YouTube video played in court Thursday morning, urgently repeating, “I look so fat,” while panning the camera over her slender torso.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
I approach the broken window, slowly panning across the yellow crime-scene tape that stretches the length of the one-story building.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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