substance
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The high court made clear, however, that it was not weighing in on the substance or merits of the rules themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Some officials had hoped to hear more substance, the report noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
At Fed meetings, Warsh hasn’t given the committee a detailed account of how he reads the economy; some had hoped to hear more substance and fewer catchphrases by now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Rescue officers attended the beach earlier and located a number of lumps of the substance along the beach.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Griffith’s and Muller’s experiments had pointed to a material substance, a chemical that could move between organisms and was quite easily altered by X-rays.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Worker bees normally serve as a colony's first line of defense against contamination, filtering harmful substances before they can spread through the hive.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
"Keep dogs and children away from any unusual waxy or oily substances and avoid handling them with bare hands."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
There are supplement-testing programmes which batch test products before they are sold to make sure they do not contain any Wada-prohibited substances.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Ohl criticised the "biological view" being pushed online that the human body is "capital" to be exploited by taking chemical substances to improve one's physical appearance.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Locke doubted whether our sensory capacities were sufficient to allow us to develop an adequate knowledge of corporeal substances.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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