passage
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Other shipping companies have transited the Arctic passage before, with Denmark's Maersk the first to do so in 2018.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Now, fans fear that he will join the list of young flamethrowers who will go through the Tommy John rite of passage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Such journeys have become a rite of passage for the millions of tourists who island-hop through Greece every summer, dreaming of beaches, parties and feta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Getting bangs was a local rite of passage; even if they flopped, I’d be setting out on the same Hero’s Journey as most of my new neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The president also guessed, correctly, that Ona might book passage on a ship and had the funds—the “wherewithal”—to do so.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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
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
Comparison of airborne transmission of experimental passaged A/H5N1 and 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 viruses in individual ferrets.
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
Although we observed several other mutations, their occurrence was not consistent among the airborne viruses, indicating that of the heterogeneous virus populations generated by passaging in ferrets, viruses with different genotypes were transmissible.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012
In passaging to the left, the whip should be used by gentle touches, on the horse’s right shoulder, or flank as may be necessary.
From The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation by T. A. Jenkins
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