preserve
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This might help preserve muscle strength even when a person's ability to exercise is limited.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Berlin has, for its part, asked the head of the Italian bank, Andrea Orcel, to preserve the role of Germany’s second-largest private bank in the country’s economy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Stop reading now if you want to preserve the surprise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
It is often presented as a way for women to help preserve their fertility and, in some cases, delay motherhood.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Exception 2.—Words ending in oe retain the e to preserve the sound of the root: as, shoe + ing = shoeing; hoe + ing = hoeing.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
Your prenup preserves your financial independence, but it doesn’t deal with your emotional codependence — that takes work on both your parts.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
It preserves the merger rather than blocking consolidation, while relying on monitoring, production requirements and penalties to limit its consequences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
And if you start — or end — the meal with Wisconsin cheese, don’t skip the apricot preserves alongside it.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The fossil belongs to Dendrocrinus simcoensis and preserves its tube feet, delicate structures that almost never survive fossilization.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Along with cinnamon buns, Eliza had packed hotcakes and ham, a crock of cherry preserves, another of garlic pickles, and a hard ball of cheese carefully wrapped.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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The oldest known shipwreck where some of the wood is still preserved was found in the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Although the scientists did not recover a complete skeleton, the preserved backbone provides important clues about the snake's enormous proportions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
One specimen, identified as Embryo No. 3, stood out because its DNA recording system had functioned particularly well and preserved the most extensive developmental history.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The technology is decidedly futuristic, but the company has deliberately preserved a person at the point of service.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Perhaps collectors who had read her two caterpillar books might wish to buy her watercolors—or her carefully preserved caterpillar and butterfly specimens.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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“Lufthansa Group is pursuing a clear strategic agenda: to support TAP Air Portugal’s growth while preserving its national identity and to sustainably strengthen Portugal’s connectivity, particularly with North and Latin America,” the group said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
However, they reveal a potential mechanism through which large genetic rearrangements could create new biological possibilities while preserving essential functions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
And while the future location of Punk Rock Bowling remains unsettled, Stern made clear that preserving the community that grew around it remains central to whatever comes next.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Officials said they hope to balance the need to make cuts with preserving quality programs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Such was the skill of the Chinchorro at preserving human flesh that scientists have been able to extract intact DNA from cadavers thousands of years older than the Egyptian pyramids.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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