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

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

"These properties are relatively conserved in the evolutionary family tree of insects and can only be changed to a limited extent," Peters explains.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026

The researchers found that this regulatory program is highly conserved from mice to humans and across vertebrates, emphasizing its fundamental biological importance.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 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