locus
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She quotes an AI firm employee who says “it’s all vast and various and spread out, there is no central deliberative council, no known locus of authority.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
It’s all vast and various and spread out, there is no central deliberative council, no known locus of authority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
They removed mu opioid receptors specifically from locus coeruleus brain cells in mice with neuropathic pain.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
FoodNet collects data from 10 states, none of which have been at the locus of the cyclosporiasis outbreak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
I wandered more north than west, justifying my course by a curiosity to see the Sinoth Valley region, the locus of the rivalry between Karhide and Orgoreyn.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Which is why the Olympic rink has been invaded by George Michael, the Backstreet Boys and enough Ricky Martin to turn Milan’s dolce vita into la vida loca.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
“We call it hora loca in Spanish. And we created a playlist of second movements of Mozart symphonies and that somehow is like a sedative. They always immediately relax.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
Thinking back on her vida loca, Romero has to laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
It continued at La Piazzetta, a restaurant within the resort, where the couple and their guests enjoyed a flamboyant hora loca, an hour full of dancing and appearances by costumed performers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
I recognize the word loca quite a few times.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
Would Washingtonians rather live next to a structure that looks like a gigantic Martian spaceship or a work of beauty that reflects the genius loci, the spirit of the place?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
The team identified over 140 new genetic risk loci, increasing the number known eight-fold to 164, including three on the X chromosome.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
By enabling researchers to swiftly pinpoint genomic loci for targeted gene integration, CRISPR-COPIES provides a streamlined pipeline that facilitates the identification of stable integration sites across the genome.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
They identified a total of three loci in the genome that are associated with the risk of ACE inhibitor-induced angioedema.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024
Encoded in that molecule were the loci of human perfectibility and vulnerability: once we learned to manipulate this chemical, we would rewrite our nature.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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