formation

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The formation of the new forum, with its slogan: "Bring them home now", gave the hostages' families a much-needed sense of regaining control.

From BBC

To uncover this ancient food web, McGill researchers analyzed all known animal fossils from a single geological formation in central Colombia.

From Science Daily

They went to the Valley of Fire State Park, which features fantastical sandstone formations the same color as the museum’s renderings.

From Los Angeles Times

These stem cells were then used to grow three-dimensional brain organoids that mimic early stages of human brain formation.

From Science Daily

I go heavy on the turbinado — those mammoth, amber flakes that look like tiny geological formations — and I don’t apologize for it.

From Salon