cleavage
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The coating raised DNA cleavage efficiency from 36% without PEG to 92% with PEG at 37°C over 31 hours.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
“It created a cleavage with the United States that was really necessary.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
“Although race is often cited as the central cleavage in America, the single most powerful predictor of voting intention is religion,” the Economist noted.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
Going after its leaders would risk a major cleavage.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2023
He examines a copy of Streeters Precious Stones and Gems; drawings of cleavage panes; trigonometric charts used for faceting.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
“There are toxic cleavages and an incipient social fragmentation that can easily turn into instability.”
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024
Pop music has always gone hand in hand with strong opinions and heated debates — including the kinds of generational cleavages that inspire finger-wagging lectures.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2021
More recently, cleavages stemming from class, race, religion, gender, and ethnicity, split the country into antagonistic factions.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2020
Either formulation is a polite way of saying that political cleavages are not so much “I disagree with your views” as “I hate your stupid face.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2018
As society forms and reforms, its cleavages follow unknown lines.
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
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