recessive
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“He believed that he had failed as a son, a man, a writer,” someone observes of the dark, brooding, recessive and incandescently weird Franz Kafka in “Franz.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Motoki portrays Murashige as curiously recessive — someone who has laid waste to myriad foes and has now lost his taste for bloodshed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
In those cases, whether an allele is active can depend on whether it was inherited from the mother or the father rather than whether it is dominant or recessive.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026
Pattinson has the more recessive role but his performance is so subtle and clever that it’s worth watching closely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
For instance, all cultivated peas share the same recessive gene that prevents ripe pods of cultivated peas from spontaneously popping open and spilling their peas, as wild pea pods do.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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