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[kuhl-cher] / ˈkʌl tʃər /




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Last week, four works "of extraordinary value" by Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina were stolen from a museum in Sicily, Italy's culture ministry said.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

"I see her program as a part of our collective culture," said Allis.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

“Talking about who we are, our identity, our culture, our history and saying that we are here and we exist is political.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

For American Jews it was a touchstone, helping them adapt, through food, to middle-class American life while not losing their connection to Jewish culinary culture.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

As he returned to the States, Farmer considered his year in Haiti, where he had met a beautiful and fascinating young woman and learned numerous lessons about poverty, culture, and religion, a success.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Daniel E. Lieberman has studied the diets of indigenous cultures worldwide, from the Hadza, a hunter-gatherer people in Tanzania, to Maasai herders in Kenya and the Tarahumara Native Americans of northern Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

“It talks about this incredibly important moment of encounter of cultures, sometimes difficult, problematic.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

"She has led major international initiatives on sustainable development and dialog among cultures, bridging Latin America, the Arab world, Africa and Europe," Tonga wrote.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

"It's nothing other than two cultures do not align, and that's what's causing a lot of friction," Docherty says.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

To encourage them all to learn about other cultures and to develop their talents, Anna and Dorus had magazines and newspapers delivered to the house.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

For much of the opening half they were like a cultured fighter, boxing the ears off an over-matched rival, bamboozling their punchbag with their movement before what felt like an inevitable knockout.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

They now plan to expand the approach beyond cultured cells and apply it to living systems.

From Science Daily May 21, 2026

"They took bees back and growed them in the lab, they cultured all the pollen, the wax, and many, many things."

From Barron's May 19, 2026

Maybe it’s a drizzle of special vinegar, a pat of cultured butter softening into gloss or a tangle of pickled vegetables with just enough bite.

From Salon Apr. 26, 2026

Judging from Dr. Bright's accounts, the men of London dressed in splendid clothing, all ornamented and embroidered, and spoke in a civil and cultured manner.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

There, he spent his days culturing cells and running experiments in a Minneapolis Veterans Affairs laboratory until 2016, when he left GeneSegues but stayed in Minnesota.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 25, 2026

The samples were then analysed using cutting edge sequencing technology and traditional culturing techniques were employed to isolate bacteria with antibiotic activity.

From Science Daily May 31, 2024

Suspended in water, the legs of the new robot are made of 3D-printed elements, flexible rubber, and skeletal muscle tissue grown by culturing rat cells in a lab.

From Science Magazine Jan. 26, 2024

These findings help to better understand cell differentiation and could thus be a basis for future developments in the field of targeted culturing of tissue in cell replacement therapies.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2023

As Gey flew from one lab to another, demonstrating his culturing techniques and helping to set up new laboratories, he always flew with tubes of Henrietta’s cells in his breast pocket.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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