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passage

[pas-ij] / ˈpæs ɪdʒ /




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Responding to Saturday's developments dating the letter to 2019, a spokesman for the duchess said "any discrepancy of a few months" was "an understandable consequence of that passage of time".

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

He pointed to bipartisan collaboration as key to the passage of AB 32, and Schwarzenegger recalled environmentalists and business leaders celebrating together after the bill passed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

As chief innovation officer at baby-care brand HealthyBaby, Swank and the company’s founder-CEO helped advocate for the passage of new California legislation that requires brands to provide more transparency into diaper ingredients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Pacific Island countries with small populations have struggled to patrol millions of kilometres of Pacific Ocean to combat illegal fishing fleets from Asia and the passage of "narco subs" deployed from South America.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

“I think there’s a passage in the Bible that could explain it better than I could; where it says ‘O ye of little faith.’

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

The scientists passaged a bat coronavirus from Laos that is a distant cousin of SARS-CoV-2 through human cells and in mice to see whether it acquired a specific mutation that would help it infect people.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2022

The infected cells were passaged the next day and selected in puromycin for 3 days.

From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017

Because no airborne transmission was observed in experiment 2, A/H5N1wildtype and A/H5N1HA Q222L,G224S PB2 E627K were serially passaged in ferrets to allow adaptation for efficient replication in mammals.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012

Comparison of airborne transmission of experimental passaged A/H5N1 and 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 viruses in individual ferrets.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012

The Captain passaged his chestnut alongside my bay, chuckled and told me all about it.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various

By introducing mutations and passaging, Kawaoka and Fouchier managed to tweak the virus so it could spread between laboratory ferrets, a stand-in for humans.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2022

And passaging in cell cultures often deletes the furin cleavage site or makes viruses weaker.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 1, 2021

We changed the source of inoculum during the course of the experiment, because passaging nasal washes may facilitate the selection of viruses that were secreted from the URT.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012

In those studies, H5N1 viruses were made transmissible via respiratory droplets among ferrets by engineering the virus; well-described and published protocols including reverse genetics, reassortment, and passaging of viruses in mammals were used.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2012

Not only the young swells, but the old politicians and the celebrated generals, used to go "titupping" down the Row, passaging, traversing, and piaffing to the admiration of all beholders.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Theodore Ayrault Dodge


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