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[see-kwuhns] / ˈsi kwəns /


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The images confirmed that much of its landing sequence had worked.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

"The ability to change a DNA sequence of our choosing into a new sequence of our choosing is a fundamentally very powerful capability," Liu told AFP in an interview in 2025.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Harvard’s coach may have been the only person in the stadium who wasn’t shocked by the sequence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

In other words, get ready to read a lot and yet, surprisingly, to enjoy the immersion, as one might the hushed thrill of a surveillance sequence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

It is unsophisticated, employs no big forms and no big architectural structures, and it uses small sequence forms, ostinato and rondo.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

The company’s press release goes into more detail, but basically says that Claude was prompted to search through a massive database of DNA sequences for reverse transcriptases, enzymes that copy RNA into DNA.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

Plenty of films measure the lamentable distance between real life and Hollywood fantasy, but there’s not enough poignancy or creative exuberance in these stilted dance sequences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers could follow individual variants in remarkable detail because genome sequences were usually linked to precise dates.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

And dream sequences that sometimes pop out of nowhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Criteria like this can be used to determine how likely it is that sequences of heads and tails or Xs and Os or hits and misses are randomly generated.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

A patient’s tumor is surgically removed and then sequenced, allowing researchers to figure out which mutated proteins are expressed on the cancer cells.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

This vaccine is different: A surgeon removes the tumor and sends it to a lab, where its mutations are sequenced and an algorithm identifies the targets for a personalized mRNA vaccine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Unlike traditional posthumous albums that stitch together loose verses, “Prolific” was recorded and sequenced nearly two years before Hussle’s death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Those signals were difficult to investigate because scientists do not have sequenced DNA from most other extinct hominins.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

Behind the wall is a world of dark lines and streaks of light, sequenced into detailed patterns.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

That’s a tricky decision to make, because the criteria for impactful album sequencing are not at all the same for a live show.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

British chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman, for their contribution to next-generation DNA sequencing, could be honoured, according to the science journalist.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

In the age of AI and gene sequencing, we still catch cancer one organ at a time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

"We combined state-of-the-art DNA sequencing and computational methods to generate and compare these genomes and identify the genes they contain," said senior author Professor Michael Hiller, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

“So, in the event of a self-destruct initiation, the only way to stop the sequencing is by making and uploading a full PowerPoint presentation? “

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray




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