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Recent Examples of micePet Food Dry pet food has a high protein content that mice love.—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025 In our marketing, the Get-Ready Yeti and the gifting mice Lenny, Berry, and Merry have become breakout stars.—Cara Sylvester, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025 This year, scientists in China fed mice diets prepared on boards made of different plastic types.—Matt Fuchs, Time, 24 Nov. 2025 Obese mice that were treated with the gene therapy, which Fractyl calls Rejuva, lost about 20% of their body weight within three weeks.—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025 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
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.
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Robert Rubsam,
Vulture,
18 Sep. 2025
But Democrats look like cowards for fleeing the state.
Researchers discovered that the light/dark cycle and the need to maintain stable conditions regulate sleep in jellyfish, whereas the circadian clock and internal timings primarily regulate sleep in sea anemones.
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Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
9 Jan. 2026
Upside-down jellyfish pulse beneath my kayak, and mangrove roots stitch land together, holding the island in place.
Rather than adding or removing reeds to balance fragrance impact in the space, adjust its room placement to fit its size or swap it for one that better matches your scent goals.
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Patricia Shannon,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Nov. 2025
Because of the weir, the 220-acre lagoon can’t flow freely to the ocean and is slowly filling with silt and reeds.
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Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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