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mouse

[mous, mouz] / maʊs, maʊz /
NOUN
rodent
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Clad in a blue suit and squinting at a computer screen in his office, Putin leaned forward and clicked his mouse.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

A much larger view emerged in January 2025, when an Allen Institute team reported an analysis of roughly 1.2 million mouse brain cells in Nature.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

The project supports computational models of how a neuron's physical properties and incoming signals affect its axon, followed by tests in mouse tissue and cell cultures.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

In the new mouse study, the scientists followed proteins as they moved out of the brain, through these channels, and into the skull bone marrow.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

He’d thought, If I eat that mouse, I will feel better.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

In April 2025, a study in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences examined mice engineered to develop features of Alzheimer's disease.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

Interventions that maintained or stimulated this system increased physical activity and extended lifespan in mice.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

Related research has since documented pearled axons in human brain tissue, extending the observations beyond mice.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

The team examined mouse neurons grown in the laboratory, neurons from adult mice and neurons from mouse embryos.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

On Saturday, during the real performance, she and Nadine would start the scene dressed in mice costumes.

From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene

For one, the dock occasionally disappeared when I opened a full-screen Chrome tab in laptop mode, and it didn’t pop up when I moused around the bottom of the screen.

From The Verge Aug. 31, 2022

I have moused and clicked through a few, mostly ones I could watch without covering the screen whenever the children walked by.

From New York Times Apr. 16, 2020

Figuring that black-clad subversives might congregate on the indie boards, I moused over to Pop Genius to check out the state of the conversation around Death Cab For Cutie.

From Slate Apr. 7, 2015

Jamie videoed her dance routine and then they ran it in slow motion and moused it into shape, speeding up moves or slowing them down, repositioning legs, arms and head.

From Nature Mar. 17, 2015

Priscilla moused these carefully, explaining why she did so, and then found that she had to cut the mousing and catch the remaining corner of the sail with the hooks.

From Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham

He was moved out of the department's central London building during the Covid pandemic and in 2020 he formally retired from his mousing duties.

From BBC Feb. 5, 2025

Typing and mousing for long periods is stressful for the finger and wrist muscles as well as the forearms.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 28, 2025

When mousing in snow, the fox's long snout also allows it to reach its prey earlier, as mice are very sensitive to movements in their environment and can quickly escape.

From Science Daily Apr. 29, 2024

They’re surfaces upon that to put your input devices in order to protect your desktop — or, in my case, to regain a reliable mousing surface after I damaged my desk surface.

From Seattle Times Dec. 28, 2023

Charles said harshly, “Say, what you mousing around at?”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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