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culture

[kuhl-cher] / ˈkʌl tΚƒΙ™r /




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It is crucial to the city’s long-term plan of knitting together 300 miles of bikeways by 2040 to bring bicycle culture to Long Beach, as well as create safer streets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Mr. Theroux is deliciously dyspeptic, and he describes present-day books of travel as “lazy and imitative, celebrating the encroaching triviality of popular culture, or else unreadable for their flatulence and frivolity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

"It wasn't just in schools or public spaces, it was in culture too."

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

In addition, the museum’s curators tended to be specialized in material culture — collecting and studying the museum’s several million objects and artifacts — rather than in conceptual storytelling.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

At home, children are exposed to a family’s musical heritage, which may contain music unfamiliar to those in their dominant culture.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

“An image I had of Ernie was Peter Pan,” Peck said, describing him as someone with a knack for making his way into different venues and cultures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

They embody the very spirit of the cultures they represent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Ants are eaten and sometimes even valued as a delicacy in several Asian, African and Latin American cultures.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Vazquez is continuing to investigate the genetic mechanisms that control longevity using cell cultures in his new faculty position at Pennsylvania State University.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

This dramatic change in the roster of nations making up the new America is yet another stage in the saga of this country as a melting pot of cultures and experience.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Additional in vivo research will be necessary to determine whether the effects translate beyond cultured cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026

Ernst is handsome, cultured, cool under pressure, effortlessly polyglot and unshakably ethical.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

"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

He liked that Leanne came from a cultured family.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

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

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

They used DNA sequencing, mass spectrometry and microbial culturing to look at the chemicals in the secretions and the microbes that make them.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2023

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

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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