development
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During a series of hearings, witnesses called as development experts pored over maps of the campus to identify several parcels to spread the housing into separate villages.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
The company has many additional cancer drugs in development.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Langston said despite the loss the cubs' mother, Tipah, has proven herself to be an "exceptional parent" throughout their development.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
"Strikingly, when this receptor was removed from the mice, the development of arterial plaques dropped significantly in some areas and disruptions to the gut microbiome were minimized."
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
Ed Lewis’s discovery of master-regulatory genes that controlled the development of segments, organs, and structures solved the problem of the final stage of embryogenesis, but it raised a seemingly infinite recursive conundrum.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing development
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 6
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 5
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 4
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