parchment
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Prepare the pan: Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan and line the bottom with parchment.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
The ability to recover substantial genetic information without damaging the parchment could make institutions more comfortable allowing researchers to study valuable manuscripts.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Researchers gently rub the parchment with a dry cytology brush, the same type of brush used for Pap smears.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
I prefer parchment paper for the first layer, which allows the bread to breathe and avoids recreating the clammy condensation routine of the airport sandwich.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
When she’d first stumbled across the notion of Wyrdgates, days ago, it had seemed interesting, and so she’d researched, digging through piles of old parchment, only to find more puzzling theories.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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"Our work shows that we can collect samples without harming the parchments, which is a big step forward."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
There are no secret documents or Ark of the Covenant filled with parchments detailing punt returns, two-point plays or gunner lanes stored away on family property, they say.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
The jars held the first of the parchments that would come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. The scrolls’ discovery kicked off a search that lasted for nearly a decade.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2017
The parchments were knock-offs of the calligraphy-filled, personalized Apostolic Blessing parchments that are sold inside the Vatican by Francis' chief alms-giver to fund the pope's charitable efforts.
From US News ● Dec. 14, 2015
José Arcadio Segundo was still reading over the parchments.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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