passing by
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"In this soup of quark-gluon plasma, there are numerous quarks and gluons passing by and colliding with each other," Lee explains.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Sensory organs in their eight feet and two antenna-like palps sense heat or carbon dioxide from people passing by, and they quickly climb aboard, piercing the flesh with long, barbed mouthparts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Roberts said it had been "painful" to see her old home boarded-up for the past three years, and for months she "diverted halfway around Derby" to avoid passing by it.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
He’s recorded 75 sharks from 16 species passing by more than 7,500 times over the past eight years, including bull sharks, considered the most-aggressive species.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Through the phone Mrs. Richardson heard the faint blare of a siren passing by and then receding into the distance.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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