as in particle
a very small piece
not a molecule of sense in that girl
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Recent Examples of molecule
In a release Tuesday, Eli Lilly said the new Houston plant will focus on manufacturing orforglipron and the company's pipeline of other small molecule medicines across different disease areas, including cardiometabolic health, oncology, immunology and neuroscience.
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Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
Chirality is a property in which a molecule cannot be superimposed with its mirror image, like right and left hands.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Its main job is to clean up harmful molecules called reactive oxygen species (ROS), which build up in cells.
—New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2025
Found between about nine and 19 miles above Earth’s surface, the ozone layer is a broad region of the stratosphere where the molecule, which contains three oxygen atoms, is particularly concentrated.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
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Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
Chirality is a property in which a molecule cannot be superimposed with its mirror image, like right and left hands.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Its main job is to clean up harmful molecules called reactive oxygen species (ROS), which build up in cells.
—New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2025
Found between about nine and 19 miles above Earth’s surface, the ozone layer is a broad region of the stratosphere where the molecule, which contains three oxygen atoms, is particularly concentrated.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for molecule
Noun
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Then coat your sink in dish soap and lightly scrub with a sponge to remove all food particles, stuck-on-gunk, and more.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
26 Sep. 2025
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Up next will be the construction of new water quality testing lab space in a building previously dedicated to flocculation, or getting particles to clump together for easier removal.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
26 Sep. 2025
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On our table are a plate of thin-sliced speck, ham, and cheese, a dish with curls of homemade butter that look like tiny beehives, two pots of homemade strawberry and apricot jam, and a jar of golden honey from the farm bees.—
R29 Team,
Refinery29,
19 Sep. 2025
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Not until 52 hours later will the last speck of the sun's upper limb finally drop completely out of sight.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The hydrogen atoms in the exosphere generate a faint glow called the geocorona, which is only detectable in ultraviolet light at great distances.—
Kyle Orland,
ArsTechnica,
24 Sep. 2025
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Hundreds of thousands of years passed before a tiny hydrogen atom could even hold itself together.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
24 Sep. 2025
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That play out in center field the other day kind of flared it up a little bit.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
27 Sep. 2025
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Our offense started to come alive a little bit.—
Frank Rajkowski,
Twin Cities,
27 Sep. 2025
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Yes, these flecks are seeds that were once inside of a vanilla bean, confirms Britton.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 Sep. 2025
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This uncanny coincidence — that the Earth’s radiation lines up with the energies of carbon dioxide’s mixed vibrational/rotational quantum state — is how this tiny trace of molecules, mere flecks in the air, completely dominates our climate.—
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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Burnished oxblood red, with patches of green oxidation, the sculpture was fished out of the Adriatic in the nineteen-sixties.—
Dana Goodyear,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The innovator crosses over brown hills and green valleys, eventually spotting Lake Elsinore as a large blue patch against the dry landscape.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2025
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Small things, like individual eyelashes or grains of sand, often get flushed out on their own through a combination of tearing up and blinking, per Mount Sinai.—
Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
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Swapping low-fiber grains, like white rice, with high-fiber grains, like barley, is an easy way to boost your intake of this important nutrient.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
25 Sep. 2025
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To his credit, the streams so far have given fans a lot to unpack, as well as a trove of new snippets and hints of what sound like some very good raps from Drake.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
23 Sep. 2025
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Observations, snippets of dialogue, and wry anecdotes make up this laconic novel, which focusses on the life of a young woman in New York.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Molecule.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molecule. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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