conserved

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It raised the height of a dam to double its storage, built the desalination plant and acquired rights to a trove of conserved Colorado River water from a desert farming district.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

"Over a century later, it is emerging as an elegantly conserved mechanism at the heart of mitochondrial biology. This biophysical process offers a simple and energy efficient means to distribute the mitochondrial genome."

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

Abroad, though, interest rates and inflation risks have shot up, fuel is being conserved, and economic forecasts are darkening.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

“Our states have conserved large volumes of water in recent years,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a joint statement with Arizona’s Katie Hobbs and Nevada’s Joe Lombardo.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

He proposed that every feature in a human—height, weight, intelligence, beauty—was a composite function generated by a conserved pattern of ancestral inheritance.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee