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Example Sentences

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But last week Philadelphia's Dr. William Likoff somberly warned the AHA that the "mild coronary" may have more cause for ap prehension than for gratitude.

From Time Magazine Archive

But public ap prehension about the possible dangers of chemical insect killers is now shielding the hungry worms from DDT and other long-lasting poisons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unless indeed254 we confine the term “primary” to the reproductive glands, it is scarcely possible to decide, as far as the organs of prehension are concerned, which ought to be called primary and which secondary.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles

When the tongue is affected, it is swollen and painful, and prehension and mastication of the food may be impossible.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.

It accords with the principle of the division of physiological labour, which prevails throughout the animal kingdom, that 142as the hands became perfected for prehension, the feet should have become perfected for support and locomotion.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles