passage
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Not especially keen swimmers, they used their mousing skills to secure passage on world-traveling ships piloted by merchants and explorers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Pacific Island countries with small populations have struggled to patrol millions of kilometres of Pacific Ocean to combat illegal fishing fleets from Asia and the passage of "narco subs" deployed from South America.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
These businesses can book a cargo container, sea passage to an overseas destination, arrange insurance cover, and secure finance.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Researchers discovered evidence of a sophisticated soft palate that separated the mouth from the pharynx, the passage connecting the mouth to the throat.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The men rejoiced as the weather cleared and they had the first good weather of the passage.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
The scientists passaged a bat coronavirus from Laos that is a distant cousin of SARS-CoV-2 through human cells and in mice to see whether it acquired a specific mutation that would help it infect people.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2022
The infected cells were passaged the next day and selected in puromycin for 3 days.
From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017
Comparison of airborne transmission of experimental passaged A/H5N1 and 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 viruses in individual ferrets.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
Because no airborne transmission was observed in experiment 2, A/H5N1wildtype and A/H5N1HA Q222L,G224S PB2 E627K were serially passaged in ferrets to allow adaptation for efficient replication in mammals.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
The Captain passaged his chestnut alongside my bay, chuckled and told me all about it.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various
By introducing mutations and passaging, Kawaoka and Fouchier managed to tweak the virus so it could spread between laboratory ferrets, a stand-in for humans.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2022
And passaging in cell cultures often deletes the furin cleavage site or makes viruses weaker.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 1, 2021
The Sabin vaccine was created in the 1940s and ’50s by passaging the virus through animal cells until scientists found a suitably weakened form.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2020
We changed the source of inoculum during the course of the experiment, because passaging nasal washes may facilitate the selection of viruses that were secreted from the URT.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
Presently the last nail was made firm, and Black Darnaway was led, passaging and tossing his bridle reins, out upon the green sward.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
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