in situ
Example Sentences
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The obelisk was displaced to Paris, certainly, and the Rosetta Stone, also hitherto neglected in situ, went to Britain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
To determine how the system worked, the researchers combined in situ spectroscopy, photochemical analysis, finite element simulations, and theoretical calculations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
According to the researchers, fire whirls can burn crude oil nearly twice as fast as traditional in situ fire pools.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
More recently, I tidied the home of a friend who was in the hospital, the pill bottles and crumpled blankets left in situ as evidence of someone else’s pain.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Diagnosing carcinoma in situ had only been possible since 1941, when George Papanicolaou, a Greek researcher, published a paper describing a test he’d developed, now called the Pap smear.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
