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atlas

[at-luhs] / ˈæt ləs /






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The aim is to build an atlas of how diet interacts with the body, and to pinpoint which molecules really matter for health.

From Science Daily Jun. 17, 2026

Almost every resident carries a private atlas of vanished places: Regal Cinema, the old Coffee House, Urdu bookshops in Daryaganj, winter evenings at India Gate before barricades and security cordons reshaped the city.

From BBC May 25, 2026

First held in 2018, the week stems from the island's involvement with an online atlas of wildlife.

From BBC Apr. 25, 2026

An agreeable companion on the page, Mr. McCarthy prefers scenic parkways to multilane highways and amusingly relies on a Rand McNally road atlas instead of phone-enabled navigation.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

On December Jethro looked for another river and another town in Shadrach’s atlas.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

MRI-based atlases capture the brain's broad structure but not individual cells.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

His meticulous survey takes in dozens of sources, from the obscure to the well-known: pamphlets to legal codes, sermons to atlases, maps, travel narratives, even journals kept by ships’ captains.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

The Nazi atlases “were like documents of death. The atlases that Shiv is creating are really living, interactive tools to support life.”

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2024

Eventually, the team envisions uLIPSTIC as a key tool in the effort to generate comprehensive atlases describing how cells interact to form tissue -- a key to the long-awaited interactome.

From Science Daily Mar. 6, 2024

As in all atlases, there were two completely blank pages at the very end.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl




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