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Recent Examples of injected
In RenBio’s most successful experiments, mice injected with the plasmids lost about 15% of their body weight, which was significantly more than mice in a placebo group.
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Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
And just last week, the Democratic National Committee injected $500,000 into a combination of elections in New Jersey, Virginia, and Pennsylvania on top of its prior $3 million commitment to the Garden State earlier this year.
—ABC News, 4 Nov. 2025
That includes the brackish water in aquifers that requires desalination, as well as reuse water that goes through additional treatment before being injected back into cities’ water supplies.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2025
Their owners have just injected £100million ($131m) into their accounts.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Most promising is work being done with the cancer drug Keytruda, with astronauts helping Big Pharma develop a form of the drug that can be injected quickly and easily at a doctor’s office rather than being administered by a slow intravenous drip in a clinic.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
But when Neon bought the film just before its world premiere — and later injected roughly $1 million into reshoots that don’t improve the story much — Stuckmann’s scrappy underdog became a mainstream Frankenstein’s monster some horror fans earnestly wanted to watch fail.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2025
Fulvestrant, another therapy in the family, also works to eliminate breast cancer but has distinct limitations given that it is injected, rather than taken orally like palazestrant.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
The medications are injected in the thigh or stomach.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
And just last week, the Democratic National Committee injected $500,000 into a combination of elections in New Jersey, Virginia, and Pennsylvania on top of its prior $3 million commitment to the Garden State earlier this year.
—ABC News, 4 Nov. 2025
That includes the brackish water in aquifers that requires desalination, as well as reuse water that goes through additional treatment before being injected back into cities’ water supplies.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2025
Their owners have just injected £100million ($131m) into their accounts.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Most promising is work being done with the cancer drug Keytruda, with astronauts helping Big Pharma develop a form of the drug that can be injected quickly and easily at a doctor’s office rather than being administered by a slow intravenous drip in a clinic.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
But when Neon bought the film just before its world premiere — and later injected roughly $1 million into reshoots that don’t improve the story much — Stuckmann’s scrappy underdog became a mainstream Frankenstein’s monster some horror fans earnestly wanted to watch fail.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2025
Fulvestrant, another therapy in the family, also works to eliminate breast cancer but has distinct limitations given that it is injected, rather than taken orally like palazestrant.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
The medications are injected in the thigh or stomach.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for injected
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At this point, turn down the heat to 375°F for the final 25 to 30 minutes, or until a knife or skewer inserted 2 inches from the edge of each pie comes out clean.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Nov. 2025
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Reduce oven temperature to 350°F, and bake until a thermometer inserted into thickest portion of thigh registers 165°F, 2 hours, 45 minutes to 3 hours, 45 minutes, basting with pan juices every 45 minutes.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2025
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Dark energy was introduced as a placeholder force to explain this accelerating expansion.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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More on the science behind the portfolio diet A few small studies led by Jenkins in 2003, including the trial that introduced the diet to the world, found an association between following the portfolio diet and a lower risk of heart disease and stroke.—
Renée Onque,
CNBC,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Injected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/injected. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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