embryonic

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Recent Examples of embryonic Cooking up a batch of stem cells to treat illness or injury used to involve the ethically hairy practice of harvesting them from embryonic tissue. Michael Irving, New Atlas, 14 Mar. 2025 According to the researchers, their conclusions about the facial development of embryonic mice also appears to apply to us humans. Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025 The researchers were inspired by biological processes in embryonic development. Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Mar. 2025 Replicating biological processes To replicate the fluidity and movement of the embryonic cells, the researchers identified three biological processes occurring during embryonic development—fluidization, polarization, and adhesion. Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for embryonic
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Adjective
  • The flashpoint was the hospital’s role in a child protection case involving the infant grandson of one of Bundy’s friends.
    Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Zinc oxide is a key ingredient in most infant diaper creams so its ultra gentle.
    Bea McMonagle, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Somehow, consciousness is an emergent property of the brain.
    Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Trump has nominated Catholics to top posts, including from an emergent right wing of the church that favors traditionalism and rejects reforms championed by Francis to make the church more inclusive.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • That’s the germinal disc and an indication the egg is fertile.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2025
  • That’s the germinal disc and an indication the egg is fertile.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • About 'The Legend of Ochi' In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy teenage farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as the Ochi.
    DeVonne Goode, Parents, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Multiple current Florida State students were also students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., when a teenage gunman killed 17 people and wounded 17 more in February 2018, according to Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was killed in the Parkland shooting.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The company’s project involved recovering DNA of the extinct dire wolf from a fossil tooth found in Idaho and an ear bone in Ohio, parts of the animal’s primordial habitat, but the key was its editing of a donor genome of the gray wolf to alter 14 of its genes.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Her analysis of dreams taps into a primordial function that night visions played in human society long before Freud showed up.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Its budding sweetness promises both a gorgeous glow and a more joyful makeup routine.
    María Munsuri, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Here’s Who the Beach Read Queen Considers Her Inspirations (Exclusive) 03 of 10 'No Ordinary Love' by Myah Ariel Ella has the life most budding pop stars can only dream of, but she’s grown tired of her producer husband’s infidelities and has decided to divorce him.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Art Across Boundaries Since a young age, Yi Ming has been passionate about the power the visual arts possess to transcend not only philosophical and disciplinary boundaries, but also cultural and national borders.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • However, the team already has young pass-rushers that haven't fully developed like David Ojabo and Tavius Robinson, making Stewart redundant.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Los Angeles, like the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Santa Monica Mountains, will never return to its primeval state.
    Edward Ring, Oc Register, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Six secluded individual bungalows sit behind a network of thriving greenery meant to evoke Miyakojima’s inland primeval forests.
    Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Embryonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embryonic. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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