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synthesis

[sin-thuh-sis] / ˈsɪn θə sɪs /


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The team compared three chitin synthesis inhibitors: bistrifluron, chlorfluazuron, and noviflumuron.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

It belongs to a group of compounds known as chitin synthesis inhibitors.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

“It’s the most comfortable synthesis of all the things I do.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

One is synthesis: Whole genomes can already be built to order for simpler organisms, leaving mostly a manufacturing challenge of scale and cost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Still, it placed upon men such as Powell and Donovan the necessity of synthesis of complete robots,—a grievous and complicated task.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

Not only research but also industrial applications in pharmaceutical syntheses and in materials science could all benefit from the results.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024

For some papers, the researchers only contacted the corresponding authors of the evidence syntheses.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 26, 2022

The papers were reviews and syntheses of research by groups of scientists in several countries around the polar region.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022

“Resynthesizers” is like a Russian nesting doll of thought experiments — a synthesis of syntheses — one that is partly explained by a dense handout flyer printed in tiny sans-serif font.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

Since Toynbee’s attempt, worldwide syntheses of historical causation have fallen into disfavor among most historians, as posing an apparently intractable problem.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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