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nucleus

[noo-klee-uhs, nyoo-] / ˈnu kli əs, ˈnju- /


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The second discovery involved paraspeckles, small droplet-like compartments located inside the cell nucleus.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

They are integrating AI agents into existing super apps or trying to turn popular AI chatbots into the nucleus of new everything apps.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

Helium-3 is an isotope of helium, defined by the number of neutrons in the atom's nucleus.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

The roughly 40% of the Las Vegas Strip that MGM owns is “an entertainment nucleus that simply cannot be replicated anywhere in the world.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

The neutron star at the center of the Crab Nebula is an immense atomic nucleus, about the size of Manhattan, spinning thirty times a second.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The cluster is a dense collection of galaxies about 145 million light-years from Earth and is considered one of the best places to examine how active galactic nuclei interact with their surroundings.

From Science Daily Jul. 18, 2026

Fusion requires heating and compressing nuclear fuel to make superheated plasma in which atomic nuclei combine, releasing energy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Because of this connection, researchers have generally assumed that observing Purkinje cell activity provides a reliable picture of what is happening in the deep nuclei cells.

From Science Daily Jul. 1, 2026

Atomic nuclei are the compact centers of atoms, made up of protons and neutrons.

From Science Daily Jun. 9, 2026

Why, as Arthur Eddington liked to ask, do the nuclei that comprise my elbow not slide effortlessly through the nuclei that comprise the table?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

"Gee whiz, nucleuses aren't so easy to be, that's one thing," Pee-wee muttered to himself as he bent his aimless way in the direction of Barrel Alley.

From Pee-Wee Harris Adrift by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese

Many words ending in us that formerly were written with only the Latin plural, are now given an English plural also; as, focuses, foci; cactuses, cacti; sarcophaguses, sarcophagi; convolvuluses, convolvuli ; funguses, fungi; nucleuses, nuclei.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by Bechtel, John Hendricks

She saw him start a dozen nucleuses of fires; saw them advance till they halted at the edge of the burned ground, beyond the wagon, so that it stood safe in a vast black island.

From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson

"So far I have done nothing but nucleuses," said Olive, as they sat down.

From The Captain's Toll-Gate by Stockton, Frank Richard

Hall, Price, and Kelsey headed in with straggling wagons to form the nucleuses of their columns; but the morning wore on and the Missourians, now under Woodhull, had not yet broken park.

From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson




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