preparative

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To solve this problem, Gurian and his co-author Simon May, a former Perimeter postdoctoral researcher now serving as an ERC Preparative Fellow at Bielefeld University, developed a new code called KISS-SIDM.

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026

Preparative to his little mine, as he calls it.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Richardson, Samuel

By a report from Cedar Creek Preparative Meeting, it appears that Walter Payne has removed to Philadelphia.

From Dorothy Payne, Quakeress A Side-Light upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison by Barnard, Ella Kent

Josiah Forster, Joseph Marriage, and Peter Bedford--have visited the families of Friends here, and attended the Preparative Meeting which was held on First-day last.

From Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by Yeardley, John

Of the Operation of Lithotomy 241 The Dressing and Bandage for the Operation of Lithotomy 243 Of the Operation of Lithotomy in Women by the lesser Preparative 244 C H A P. XVII.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel