embryonic

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Recent Examples of embryonic Females do similar things chemically but focus on shutting down genes that promote embryonic growth. ArsTechnica, 23 June 2025 The Justice Department said in a press release that a search of her bags turned up undeclared frog embryos and embryonic samples. Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 12 June 2025 Al Jardine, a Wilson classmate at El Camino College, joined them in an embryonic group, provisionally named the Pendletons after the then-popular shirt. Chris Morris, Variety, 11 June 2025 Previously, such press freedom and appeals to public opinion had burgeoned only during periods of political breakdown, notably in the 1640s, when embryonic ideas of political free speech were occasionally put into print, including by John Milton in his Areopagitica. Fara Dabhoiwala, Harpers Magazine, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for embryonic
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Adjective
  • American pediatricians count the number of ounces of milk and feeds per day, discourage night feedings and push to wean mainly to infant formula by the first birthday, even as the World Health Organization recommends two years or beyond. La Leche League, in contrast, is adamantly pro-breastfeeding.
    Alexandra Bregman, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
  • The company said tap water should also not be used to mix infant formula for children under 6 months, and said bottled water should be used.
    Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • The implications of this rare blood type extend beyond emergent transfusion needs.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Sheffield could be the emergent star, but that is just speculation right now.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • Vaccines combining slow release and follicle targeting of antigens increase germinal center B cell diversity and clonal expansion.
    Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
  • That’s the germinal disc and an indication the egg is fertile.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • According to police records, Raza, his lawyer, and Rustam's attorney, the case involves multiple factors: teenage heartache, rejection, and flirty texts between two impressionable teens.
    Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Promising a mix of magic, mystery and teen drama set against the moody backdrop of New Orleans, Coven Academy follows a trio of teenage witches-in-training who are bound by destiny to guard their city against dangerous, ancient forces.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Known as the Cosmological Lithium Problem, the primordial abundance of this light metal has puzzled astrophysicists for more than two decades now.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • There’s not only this primordial, extraterrestrial Xenomorph, [the] threatening past catching up with us, but this future, this synthetic AI [and] artificial human future is looming, is on the horizon.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Rodgers’ budding connection with Wilson and the second-year receiver’s surging performance over the last couple weeks may diminish the need to add from the outside, to a degree.
    Mike DeFabo, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • It’s been five years since the budding tech giant Palantir Technologies uprooted the company’s headquarters from Silicon Valley to Denver, hoping to plant itself in the emerging tech hub and escape protests that had erupted both within the company and outside its doors.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Specifically, the complaint alleges that young TikTok users, those ages 13 to 17, may isolate themselves from their peers while on the app, or compare themselves too much to others, which may lead to self-confidence issues.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Being able to stay calm in certain scenarios is a valuable lesson learned at a very young age.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The wilder West, meanwhile, is marked by vast, primeval cliffs that drop into an unforgiving ocean.
    Zoë Dare Hall, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Suddenly, 43 seconds later, the sky cracked open and light came screaming out in a primeval flash of energy.
    David Perlmutt, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Embryonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embryonic. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.

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