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[kon-juh-gay-shuhn] / ˌkɒn dʒəˈgeɪ ʃən /


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Sperm conjugation can be compared to a rowing team moving in a coordinated way.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

Even the mystery she’s trying to unravel depends on correctly parsing the meaning of syntax and conjugation.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026

By joining the expertise in ON chemistry, including novel functionalization technology, of the Gothelf lab together with the peptide science legacy of Novo Nordisk, new and robust conjugation chemistry has emerged.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

The awkwardness of screwing up in front of strangers, butchering their language and sweating while you raid the mind’s dusty corners for a verb conjugation, is not to be found here.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2023

On the opposite page is the Colosseum in Rome, labeled in English, and below, a conjugation: sum es est, su- mus estis sunt.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

"If anyone asks if I can say something in Spanish, I just bosh out some verb conjugations," Raducanu joked.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025

Most notably, the conjugations and tenses were difficult.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2022

I pictured him sitting at his desk, working hour after hour on his German verb conjugations or econ problem sets.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2021

In English, they both directly translate as conjugations of “to be.”

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2019

My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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