recessive
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“He believed that he had failed as a son, a man, a writer,” someone observes of the dark, brooding, recessive and incandescently weird Franz Kafka in “Franz.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Motoki portrays Murashige as curiously recessive — someone who has laid waste to myriad foes and has now lost his taste for bloodshed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Laron syndrome is recessive, meaning that for people to present symptoms they must have inherited the gene from both parents.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Some alleles are dominant, meaning their traits are expressed, while others are recessive and remain hidden when paired with a dominant allele.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026
He was so recessive that he could be in a room for a long time before anyone realized that he was there.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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