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culture

[kuhl-cher] / ˈkʌl tΚƒΙ™r /




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It stinks if you get stuck in it, but it’s also a sign of a desirable situation, of good weather and lively culture and plentiful entertainment options that include, typically, winning baseball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

A good restaurant culture takes more than telling workers to smile.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Stephen Butler, a bar owner in Naha, acknowledged that "it does not look good for the rest of us that are here, that want to be here peacefully and enjoy the culture".

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

In the case of culture, when is it OK to outsource to technology, and when is it not?

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

In Maa culture, the circumcision ceremony is the initiation that makes a boy a man.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

Climaxing in a tense court case that hinges on what constitutes a slap, “Fjord” explores clashing cultures and mutual distrust, leaving us unsure how to feel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

To investigate the receptor, the researchers used live cultures of human brain cells along with slices of brain tissue collected during neurosurgery.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

We learned how to be curious about the world from an early age and the importance of knowledge of other cultures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

You have to realise that players from different cultures can be used to living a different lifestyle, and this can make a difference to how quickly or how well they fit in.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Europeans who colonized the Americas came from their own rich, ancient cultures.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Researchers found that increasing Menin helped protect cultured hippocampal cells against inflammation and a form of programmed cell death triggered by exposure to the stress hormone corticosterone.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

A study published in the Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry in March 2024 examined Menin in cultured mouse hippocampal cells exposed to the stress hormone corticosterone.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Driving the interest are several fast-proliferating chains that offer probiotic-rich yogurts made with cultured milks that contain healthy bacteria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

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

The microscope became a new kind of "high-tech" entertainment for cultured gentlemen, and in 1665 an Englishman named Robert Hooke came up with a microscopic "hit."

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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

Culturing skin microbiota in the lab setting can be challenging due to several reasons such as difficulty in replicating the unique environment of skin and the lack of effective culturing methods.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 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

"By systematically culturing every patient, we thought we could understand how transmission was happening. The surprise was that, based on the genomics, there was very little transmission."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023

And soon, HeLa cells weren’t the only ones being bought and sold for research—with media and equipment standardization, culturing became easier, and researchers began growing cells of all kinds.

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




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