helix
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And so it goes in “The Last Kings of Hollywood,” as the lives and ambitions of Messrs. Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg entwine around one another in a triple helix.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
You can look at friendship as a journey that is like a double helix: Sometimes you and a friend will be in sync financially or emotionally, and other times you’ll be out of alignment.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026
Electric current flowed more easily in one direction, and the effect could be reversed by changing the magnetization or switching the handedness of the helix.
From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2026
Franklin, whose expert X-ray images solidified Watson’s conviction that DNA was a double helix, had died four years earlier of ovarian cancer.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
Working with crystals, Pauling had found that proteins frequently folded into an archetypal substructure—a single helix coiled like a spring.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing helix
"Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone, Chapters 28–37
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