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de novo

[dee noh-voh, day, dih, de noh-woh] / di ˈnoʊ voʊ, deɪ, dɪ, dɛ ˈnoʊ woʊ /




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World Liberty Trust filed its de novo application Wednesday with the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

One option would be to introduce herbicide resistance genes into the de novo crop and then use herbicides to kill the weeds.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024

Additional studies are also needed to improve remote sensing techniques and to investigate the best methods for training weeding robots to recognize the de novo crops' new traits.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024

“Currently … it goes through a de novo review before an administrative law judge, which means a new body of records is created,” she explains.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 28, 2023

The mitochondria do not arise de novo in cells; they are always there, replicating on their own, independently of the replication of the cell.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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