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biological

[bahy-uh-loj-i-kuhl] / ˌbaɪ əˈlɒdʒ ɪ kəl /
ADJECTIVE
concerning life
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She met him during her visit, and discovered that the real circumstances about her separation from her biological family were very different from what her adoption papers said.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Those costs are worth it given the risks posed by biological weapons, said Dean Ball, a former Trump AI adviser now at the Foundation for American Innovation think tank, which helped organize the letter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

"It's a human right to know your identity and also to have the possibility to have contact with your biological family," she fumed.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

"It is a biological, physiological and social marker of stages of our life."

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

By this, I mean the following: if you consider the major questions raging through the biological sciences in the late nineteenth century, heredity does not rank particularly high on that list.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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