conserved

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In physics, quantities such as energy, momentum, and angular momentum are conserved, meaning they cannot disappear or be created from nothing.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2026

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

"It was exciting to show that the growth signal is so conserved across the body. Maybe this is a tiny wedge to start investigating that in some different ways."

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 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

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