cleavage
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Initial experiments found that DNA cleavage efficiency reached about 50% at 70°C and almost 100% at 95°C within two hours.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
“It created a cleavage with the United States that was really necessary.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
“Although race is often cited as the central cleavage in America, the single most powerful predictor of voting intention is religion,” the Economist noted.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
Locked, backtracked complexes are less likely to be rescued by TFIIS-driven cleavage, and more likely to delay transcription of the gene involved.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024
Ifemelu looked at Ranyinudo’s dress, its thin straps, its pleated neckline that showed no cleavage.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“There are toxic cleavages and an incipient social fragmentation that can easily turn into instability.”
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024
Pop music has always gone hand in hand with strong opinions and heated debates — including the kinds of generational cleavages that inspire finger-wagging lectures.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2021
More recently, cleavages stemming from class, race, religion, gender, and ethnicity, split the country into antagonistic factions.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2020
Grievances and societal cleavages exist everywhere, waiting to be exploited.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2020
On the best developed of the three cleavages the lustre is pearly, on other surfaces it is of the ordinary vitreous type.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various
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