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milieu

[mil-yoo, meel-, mee-lyœ] / mɪlˈyʊ, mil-, miˈlyœ /


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The portraits play off the novel’s milieu: a series of churches, as well as the medieval French castle that is home to an eccentric and mostly absent prince.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

"By asking why LNPs perform so differently in the physiological milieu of the body, we found a surprisingly simple answer that could make a wide range of mRNA and gene editing therapies substantially more effective."

From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026

By merging then and now, it plunges visitors into a milieu they may know only through a Shaker bentwood box, and it signals that this exhibition aims to explore the relevance of Shaker ideas today.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Even more unusual, in this particular political milieu, was her expressed compassion for Palestinian Muslims.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

The project returned him to the milieu of small science he had left behind after his first few handmade cyclotrons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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