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selection

[si-lek-shuhn] / sɪˈlɛk ʃən /


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From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The book gained wide attention, becoming an Amazon top-seller in its category and a popular selection among science-focused reading groups.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

As one might say: It’s not just selection bias, it’s a sentence structure that blew up in popularity over the past several years, data show.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

They gather with friends and acquaintances, indulge in a nice bottle of wine and well-curated snacks, gossip a bit and maybe, just maybe, talk about the book selection of the month.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

In Darwin's scheme, the rate of change of an organism was generally fixed, while the rate of natural selection could be amplified to accelerate evolution or dampened to decelerate it.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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