amoeba
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Inside the amoeba, these pathogens can survive in a kind of safe shelter, shielded from disinfectants that would normally destroy them.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2026
A thoroughly uninflected, completely random space is not natural; after all, even an amoeba has a nucleus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
In fact, they immediately set themselves on the task of pleasing Carol and those like her, along with solving the riddle of their immunity, so they can absorb the stragglers into their joy amoeba.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025
From a bejeweled Elvis jumpsuit to a look made entirely of neon green tassels meant to resemble an amoeba, her vision was avant-garde, playful and undeniably multidimensional.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025
And a free- swimming one-celled amoeba is much more sophisticated; with about four hundred million bits in its DNA, it would require some eighty 500-page volumes to make another amoeba.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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