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Recent Examples of microenvironment
Their presence in both habitats suggests the species occupies a range of microenvironments within its canyon home.
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Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
20 Feb. 2026
Reprogrammed macrophages also alter the tumor microenvironment, activating other immune cells.
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William A. Haseltine,
Forbes.com,
7 Jan. 2026
Instead, researchers use intact microfat tissue, preserving its natural cellular diversity and microenvironment.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Jan. 2026
This means phytoplankton can establish a microenvironment in the water around them.
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Katherine Bourzac,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for microenvironment
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
20 Feb. 2026
Reprogrammed macrophages also alter the tumor microenvironment, activating other immune cells.
—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes.com,
7 Jan. 2026
Instead, researchers use intact microfat tissue, preserving its natural cellular diversity and microenvironment.
—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Jan. 2026
This means phytoplankton can establish a microenvironment in the water around them.
—
Katherine Bourzac,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for microenvironment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for microenvironment
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Scientists do not believe those environments existed where the rock formed.
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The exemptions typically apply to vulnerable populations like people who live in communal environments, healthcare workers and other categories, the staffer said.
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Art meets life in A Bigger Splash, Jack Hazan’s fascinating portrait of the late David Hockney and his social milieu in 1970s London.
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Two couples, one dinner party — that’s the bare-bones basis of The Invite, an adaptation of the 2020 Spanish movie The People Upstairs that feels tailor-made to be franchised, translated to just about any language, and transposed onto just about any upper-middle-class milieu.
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Purpose, though context-dependent, connects daily tasks to a larger mission.
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Connect with a mentor for context that makes choices clearer.
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El Niño shifts global weather patterns A naturally occurring climate cycle, El Niño is already exerting effects along the equator, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, during his June 17 WeatherWest podcast.
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In 2019, the Netherlands’ Supreme court handed down the first major legal win for climate activists when judges ruled that protection from the potentially devastating effects of climate change was a human right and that the government has a duty to protect its citizens.
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Still, fans were surprised by the lack of atmosphere permitted outside the stadium, especially in South Florida, where nearly 240,000 Colombians lived in Miami-Dade and Broward counties in 2023, according to the American Community Survey.
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The Swift Observatory is in a region of space known as low-Earth orbit nearer to the atmosphere, which is also where the International Space Station resides.
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In the months since, the strait has seen intense GPS spoofing — a form of navigation systems interference that causes vessels’ broadcast positions to appear in the wrong locations.
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Police were led to a second location, a home near 16th Street and Kensington Avenue in Kansas City, but investigators did not locate the man their either after another standoff.
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Yet the latest round of fighting has underscored the group’s resilience, dragging Lebanon into a regional war and drawing the Israeli military back to a familiar southern Lebanon terrain.
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But the mission’s goals outlined by the space agency—tasks such as scouting unexplored terrain, detecting stores of subsurface ice and monitoring atmospheric dust—are a far cry from the preexisting priority of Mars Sample Return and the associated search for alien life.
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Beyond the pool deck, an outdoor cinema, sunset yoga lawn, summer kitchens and a reservable event space overlooking the Intracoastal create a setting that shifts from a quiet morning to an evening among friends.
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Go into privacy and content settings together, not as an imposition.
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“Microenvironment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microenvironment. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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