sequence
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The sequence of events on the evening of 30 September was pieced together by US media using a combination of emergency call recordings and transcripts.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Though the Brewers have players who can hit home runs, they pulled ahead the next inning with a sequence more closely aligned with their identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
This suggests that changing the sequence of foods during a meal could offer a practical, sustainable way to improve blood sugar control without eliminating entire food groups.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
But other than its infamous opening sequence, I don’t recall being scared.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Meanwhile, William Faulkner rewrote the Russian sequence of the film and typed up the full screenplay.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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The company’s press release goes into more detail, but basically says that Claude was prompted to search through a massive database of DNA sequences for reverse transcriptases, enzymes that copy RNA into DNA.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
Plenty of films measure the lamentable distance between real life and Hollywood fantasy, but there’s not enough poignancy or creative exuberance in these stilted dance sequences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Openings that had long been considered dead because players had concluded they were so tactically weak have been revived because the engines saw sequences that world champions couldn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The new work represents a consensus built from whole-genome sequences of 64 penguins collected from 10 breeding colonies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
I rearrange my tiles, sequences of bamboo and balls, doubles of colored number tiles, odd tiles that do not fit anywhere.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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“Redlights” packs in sequenced synths and a string section, but it’s still oddly dull and even sleepy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
A patient’s tumor is surgically removed and then sequenced, allowing researchers to figure out which mutated proteins are expressed on the cancer cells.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
To investigate how the species survived in such different habitats, researchers sequenced high-coverage genomes from fossils that were between 23,000 and 31,000 years old.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
They developed "sequenced steps and timelines" while also committing to "flexibility and creativity", the statement said.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Indeed, as predicted, when the gene encoding the hemoglobin B chain was later identified and sequenced in sickle-cell patients, there was a single change: one triplet in DNA—GAG—had changed to another—GTG.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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DNA sequencing allowed them to examine the genetic identities of microorganisms present in the samples, while the additional tests helped characterize the bacteria and their disease-causing potential.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
That’s a tricky decision to make, because the criteria for impactful album sequencing are not at all the same for a live show.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
British chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman, for their contribution to next-generation DNA sequencing, could be honoured, according to the science journalist.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The samples are prepared for loading into a shoebox-sized sequencing machine made by Oxford Nanopore, which uses specialist software developed at the University of Nottingham, in partnership with hospital clinicians.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Fluent writers have these constructions at their fingertips to simultaneously control the content of a sentence and the sequencing of its words.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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