branch
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Sequencing it placed the fish well outside the seahorses, on the branch that is their closest relative.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
It added it is part of its efforts to modernise its law enforcement branch, and that "search and rescue operations will continue to be delivered" through other means.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Those who closely follow the Oscars say documentary branch voters tend to shy away from popular films, as well as those that are unconventional or feature celebrities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
U.S. officials believe a branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps recruited British nationals to carry out the planned attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
She made a new broom with a fallen-down palm branch and swept the hut again.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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They also incorporated the geological ages of fossil specimens, helping them estimate when different evolutionary branches separated.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
Whenever we glanced in the rear view mirror, we could see the trees gently waving their tiny branches in sync with the motion of the van.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
“Oh, look,” she says on our walk, pointing to the entwined branches of a nearby pine and sycamore tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
In a forest grove to the east, a contractor climbed into a mechanical harvester and pivoted its head to grip and fell a tree, strip its branches and cut the trunk into exact lengths.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Jonathan began to lift the downed branches, looking under them.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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A few years ago, Drolma and her husband branched out into opening a campsite and a homestay for tourists, seeking to capitalize on Shangri-La’s tourism boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
EssilorLuxottica has also branched into hearing correction, with its Nuance Audio integrating hearing aids into eyeglasses frames.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
I’ll always prefer Mom’s barbecued chicken, fried chicken and French fries, but I have branched out, trying an array of new, relatively tamer foods, ranging from albacore tuna to zucchini.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
"You can imagine the whole system as a finely branched power grid that becomes increasingly damaged with age: connections break down and currents stall," explains Dr. Maria Ermolaeva, the study's lead author.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
Our conversations eventually branched out, until it was the three of us talking about anything and everything for forty-five minutes at ten o’clock every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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Like many in the content creation space, he's been branching out in recent years, taking more acting jobs and getting involved in film production.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
But it also means branching into new “AI adopters,” like companies in the transportation and real-estate sectors.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The foundation runs a World War II educational program, taking Wantagh students to a museum in New Orleans about that conflict, before branching into 9/11 education.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
To counter that, Proya Cosmetics has been branching out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
She started toward a small, distant cage, in the center of which jutted up a branching dead tree.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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