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scaffold

[skaf-uhld, -ohld] / ˈskæf əld, -oʊld /


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Although the study focused only on neodymium, Hernández Sánchez and his team believe the same ligand scaffold could support similar reactions with most lanthanides and probably actinides as well.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

Alexandra Friedman, a Seattle-based friendship and relationship coach, thinks it’s OK to use AI to scaffold an uncomfortable conversation but not to lean on it throughout.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Physically and spiritually, San Juan Capistrano is centered around its mission, one of 21 established by the Catholic Church under the Spanish crown in the 18th and 19th centuries, forming the scaffold of modern-day California.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 4, 2026

I ask Winkworth's colleague Phil Williams if the scaffold tubes are too hot to handle.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

The ladders that rose from one level of scaffold to the next had all the substance of matchsticks and imparted to the structure an aura of fragility.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Such scaffolds can lead to faster, cheaper vaccine development, which otherwise can take many years and many millions of dollars.

From Salon May 20, 2026

"But especially in the psychedelic field, completely new scaffolds are incredibly rare. And this is the discovery of a brand-new therapeutic scaffold."

From Science Daily May 14, 2026

For example, in the civilian context, when construction workers fall off scaffolds and can’t walk until receiving surgery and physical therapy, their employers have to provide them workers’ compensation.

From Slate Feb. 19, 2026

The restoration lasted over a year, and in that time the cathedral was turned into a bit of a building site, with a maze of scaffolds set up on the altar and transept.

From BBC Dec. 23, 2024

The scaffolds also held work platforms for the masons made of mats of woven twigs.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

It’s “yet another advantage IBM can bring to bear in enabling, scaling, and governing production AI systems that will necessarily need to be scaffolded atop existing IT architectures,” Boolani wrote.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

Their work proved that the new scaffolded cryo-EM approach can illuminate how drug molecules bind with and inhibit cellular proteins like KRAS, and could help guide the development of more effective drugs.

From Science Daily Sep. 28, 2023

Looming as we approached the nexus of Olive and Stewart, Seattle’s version of Times Square, was an enormous, elevated sign featuring a scaffolded Great Northern Railway mountain goat atop a showy slogan: “EMPIRE BUILDER.”

From Seattle Times Feb. 23, 2023

“Can you be the social agent of that? Or are they scaffolded by other humans?”

From New York Times Sep. 6, 2022

From the unfinished, scaffolded building a figure emerged, came running.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Both are star-studded, hyper-L.A. chase comedies that treat their central contrivances as nothing more than scaffolding for the scenes that actually count.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Effortlessness, we agreed, generally has at least a little scaffolding underneath.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

After the last office tenants, Macmillan Publishing, moved out in 2019, scaffolding went up and it sat vacant through years of ownership disputes.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Older APOE2 knock-in mice had smaller nucleoli, higher levels of the nuclear scaffolding protein Lamin A/C, and better-preserved heterochromatin in the hippocampus than mice carrying APOE3 or APOE4.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

On this side, it’s covered in scaffolding, and men at the top appear to be adding more stones and bobbed wire.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland




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