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cell

[sel] / sɛl /




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As for the Fox News audio bit, dropped calls are common during times of high cell traffic, such as after a major downtown Washington event coming to a sudden and dramatic end.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2026

You understand that you are a single cell in something enormous and moving.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

The path to chemotherapy began with a 1943 wartime disaster in Bari, Italy, where sailors exposed to mustard gas showed severely depleted white blood cell counts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The lesion -- clearly visible in recent weeks -- was a basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer, said dermatologist Cristina Abdalla, who led the procedure at the Sirio-Libanes Hospital in Sao Paulo.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

I went back to my cell with a new resolve: the next time I was permitted a shower I would take with me three of my gospels.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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