mice

plural of mouse

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Recent Examples of mice Shows promise in mice models The brain is metabolically demanding, depending on a complex vascular system to supply energy and remove waste. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
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Noun
  • We are told that politics is for cowards, literary analysis is for women, education is a system of liberal indoctrination, brave individuals must resist the herd.
    Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But Democrats look like cowards for fleeing the state.
    Nicole Russell, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Delicate snowflakes and icicles will catch the light for a wintry sparkle, while gingerbread ornaments add a sweet nostalgic touch.
    Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Off the coast of Antarctica, Endurance became trapped by drifting pack ice—giant icebergs that form in the fall and winter.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 7 Oct. 2025
  • On their simulated planet, clouds released rain that froze into icebergs that melted and flowed down rivers, soaking soil and evaporating to rejoin the atmosphere.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Boissevain’s nature photography captures these in-transition landscapes in vivid hues and alien geometries, from close-ups of jellyfish-like crystal deposits to aerial shots of what scans like the surface of Mars.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The production was plagued by hurricanes, tsunami warnings, stinging jellyfish and several injuries — including Costner, who almost died while riding out a storm stranded atop a mast after his safety line had snapped.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Buying a textile with wool — don’t forget that the wool is coming from sheep.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Relax by the wood-burning stove or in the bath that offers superb vistas of the water—all while keeping an eye out for wildlife, including sheep.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Because of the weir, the 220-acre lagoon can’t flow freely to the ocean and is slowly filling with silt and reeds.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Rods and lures safely stowed, the paddling anglers head past the swampy banks and cast their lines through the reeds and lily pads.
    Wesley Bruer, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Mice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mice. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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