Example Sentences

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‘Closing the circle’: The beauty of a palindromic soccer career.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

All RNA molecules require palindromic runs of bases that lock the molecule into its functional conformation.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2023

CRISPR, an acronym for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, operates like a molecular scalpel to make incisions in DNA.

From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2023

Glenelg has several claims to fame - it's twinned with its namesake on Mars; has a palindromic name; and was a strategic outpost for the British government after the 1715 Jacobite rebellion.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2022

The English language, however, is not susceptible of any great amount of palindromic compositions.

From Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George