selecting

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This involves many decisions, such as selecting the right building blocks, deciding when to form rings, and determining whether sensitive parts of the molecule need protection.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

In fact, the grant had been given a high grade by an independent panel charged with selecting grant recipients; neither Morens nor Fauci was personally involved in the process.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

However, landlords and agents will still be able to do reference and affordability checks before selecting a tenant.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

In recent years, several technologies have emerged that allow people to appear to speak after death, by recording answers to questions in advance, with software later selecting the most relevant clips to respond.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

Farmers had been using this phenomenon for millennia—breeding and interbreeding animals to produce natural variants, and selecting these variants over multiple generations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee