embryonic

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Recent Examples of embryonic Despite advances in textile recycling technologies in recent years, adoption is still frustratingly embryonic, said the first-of-its-kind study, which was conducted in partnership with the likes of Arc’teryx, Eastman, Interzero, Textile Exchange and Tomra. Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 27 May 2025 This technique lets researchers compare neuronal circuits, as Karten did, not only in adult brains but all the way through embryonic development, following Puelles. Yasemin Saplakoglu, Wired News, 11 May 2025 These refereeing careers are very much in their embryonic stages. Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for embryonic
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Adjective
  • 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
  • The Trump administration has launched a high-profile effort to make infant formula and baby food safer under Operation Stork Speed.
    Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • The key event that may explain some of his cognitive issues may have been a life- threatening event that occurred in the 1980’s, when, then-Senator Biden, had emergent brain surgery on a leaking brain aneurysm in February, 1988 repaired by Dr. Eugene George and Dr. Neal Kassell.
    Robert Glatter, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • This emergent Catholic right in the U.S. has deepened in its loyalty to President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert.
    Liam Adams, USA Today, 12 May 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
  • It was inspired by my curiosity, scientific background and being a father of teenage boy.
    Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Much of the action in this first season centers on the four teenage Liars, particularly 17-year-old Cadence’s (Emily Alyn Lind) quest to understand what happened to her the previous summer that left her barely clothed on the beach one night on her family’s private Beechwood Island.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • That would mean the centrifugal force arising from a spinning universe becomes a force acting in all directions away from the universe's parent primordial white hole.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 June 2025
  • Sal Salis Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia Australia is home to some of the most far-flung, primordial swaths of wilderness in the world, and on the coastline of Western Australia, almost 800 miles north of Perth, sits Sal Salis.
    Chloe Berge, Outside Online, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • Netflix’s Forever series starring Simone and Michael Cooper Jr. unfolds as a contemporary, budding love story between two shy teenagers who have vibrant dreams set in Los Angeles.
    Malik Peay, Essence, 12 June 2025
  • Of course, Gilgeous-Alexander won the NBA MVP award this season and Haliburton has emerged as a budding superstar.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • But the real treat for me was meeting all these young people who are so extraordinary.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 23 June 2025
  • Central Florida is a diverse and vibrant region that will be strengthened by the full inclusion of these ambitious young people into our economy.
    Darren Soto, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • As for the chthonic powers who might intrude upon us, the worst must be the Titans, primeval offspring of Gaia and Uranus, Earth and Sky.
    Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • The limp is the primeval sign, in many cultural myth systems, of autochthony: humans born from the earth, parentless.
    Nicholas Dames, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Embryonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embryonic. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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