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set out





















VERB
set sail
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The researchers then set out to confirm that the enzyme contained a molybdenum metallocofactor.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

According to most reviews, Cregger has achieved what he set out to do.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

He set out to use the firm’s commodity-chemical sales to finance what Mr. Werth calls “a more innovative organization for discovering new products.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The research team, led by the laboratory of senior and co-corresponding author João Passos, PhD, a professor of Physiology at Mayo Clinic, set out to identify the molecular processes that drive SASP.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

As he recorded in his autobiography, “I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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