bootstrap

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Other embryo editing startups are Manhattan Genomics, co-founded by Thiel Fellow Cathy Tie, and Bootstrap Bio, which plans to conduct tests in Honduras.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

Bootstrap Bill, a kestrel with a partially amputated wing, perched on a branch nearby.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2024

In some parts of New England, for example, Bootstrap Compost will drop off a 5-gallon bucket for compostables and pick it up weekly for $11 or biweekly for $15.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2023

As Linda Tirado writes in Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America, “It’s amazing what things that are absolute crises for me are simple annoyances for people with money.”

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2019

One man turned up in Bootstrap with radiation burns, but he had not offered himself for check over at the hospital.

From Space Platform by Leinster, Murray