scaffold
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It reminds me of the old joke about the guy in the Wild West who, before he was hanged for horse stealing, said “This will be a real lesson to me,” mournfully, from the scaffold.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
Parents have since paid for a temporary scaffold bridge that allows people to traverse the condemned bridge.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026
Sir Thomas More on the scaffold of Tower Hill comforted his executioner and was reported by a witness to have repositioned his beard on the block, joking it had committed no treason.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026
They placed the receptor into a nanodisc, a tiny disc-shaped section of membrane held in solution by a scaffold protein wrapped around its edge.
From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 2025
The nucleic acid in a chromosome, as one biochemist put it, was merely the “structure-determining, supporting substance”—a glorified molecular scaffold for genes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing scaffold
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