Thesaurus results for NUCLEI

nuclei

noun

variants also nucleuses

plural of nucleus

as in centers

a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest a college campus that was a nucleus of opposition to the war

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as in hearts

the central part or aspect of something under consideration the nucleus of the movement's methodology has always been passive resistance

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Recent Examples of nuclei The researchers found that surviving fibroblasts developed significantly larger nuclei after depletion—a possible sign of cellular stress—and that the fibroblast network covering the dermal space shrank by only about 10%. —

Peter Jurich, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026 The idea is attractive because atomic nuclei are much smaller and more isolated from the outside world. —

Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026 One natural guess is that galaxies above the critical mass simply lose more of their normal matter to outflows from supernovas and active galactic nuclei. —

Paul Sutter, Space.com, 9 June 2026 This undated microscope image from USC via the NIH shows pancreatic cancer cells, nuclei in blue, growing as a sphere encased in membranes, red. —

CBS News, 31 May 2026 Fusion energy uses light elements, such as hydrogen, and extreme heat to make nuclei collide and fuse, producing a single, heavier atom and massive energy. —

Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 27 May 2026 The building blocks of atomic nuclei, quarks and gluons, floated around loosely in a kind of primordial soup. —

Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2026 The Metabolic Nucleus Nearly all the different cell types in your body — liver cells, heart cells, skin cells, beta cells, and so on — contain the same genome in their nuclei. —

Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025 In its earliest days, the Universe was a hot, dense soup of subatomic particles, including hydrogen and helium nuclei, aka baryons. —

Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025

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Earlier this month, residents of Monterey Park voted overwhelmingly to ban data centers, making the San Gabriel Valley city the first in the nation to do so by public vote.

— Katie King, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026
Authorities said the operation used call centers to steer patients toward medically unnecessary orthopedic braces.

— Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2026