Examples of ova in a Sentence
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After my mom’s extraction, on election day 1992, doctors proceeded to fertilize seven eligible ova.
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Phineas Rueckert,
Longreads,
3 Mar. 2026
By late summer, nuclei containing the edited genome were inserted into dog ova whose DNA had been removed.
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D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
The ova were left to grow into embryos and 45 were transferred into the wombs of two domestic hound mixes.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
The bill defines a female as someone whose reproductive system produces ova, and a male as someone whose reproductive system can fertilize ova.
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Sarah Swetlik | [email protected],
al,
24 May 2023
But even so, most bodily systems overlap extensively across large (ova) and small (sperm) gamete producers, and the patterns of physiology and behavior in relation to birth and care of offspring are not universal across species.
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Agustín Fuentes,
Scientific American,
1 May 2023
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Phineas Rueckert,
Longreads,
3 Mar. 2026
By late summer, nuclei containing the edited genome were inserted into dog ova whose DNA had been removed.
—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
The ova were left to grow into embryos and 45 were transferred into the wombs of two domestic hound mixes.
—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
The bill defines a female as someone whose reproductive system produces ova, and a male as someone whose reproductive system can fertilize ova.
—
Sarah Swetlik | [email protected],
al,
24 May 2023
But even so, most bodily systems overlap extensively across large (ova) and small (sperm) gamete producers, and the patterns of physiology and behavior in relation to birth and care of offspring are not universal across species.
—
Agustín Fuentes,
Scientific American,
1 May 2023
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“Ova.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ova. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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