mass
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Thirty days later, the treated mice had improvements in skin thickness and bone mass, along with better performance on tests of learning, cognition, and balance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
“What I watch for is lean mass loss, which matters more in someone with inflammatory arthritis than in the general population, because muscle is what protects the joint,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck the area in 2015 and triggered a rock-ice avalanche, could have also weakened the underlying rock mass, according to the study.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
They were protesting a fuel price hike and a free school meals programme that was blighted by mass food poisonings and corruption claims.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
It had all cleared up suddenly afterward, but at that unique moment, my face was a mass of cherry-red—and cherry-size—zits.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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He loved crime stories in which the culprit was the slippery masses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Instead, researchers detected something unexpected at nearby masses.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
But the task is complicated by the fact that risks are dispersed across the Himalayas, while a 2015 earthquake destabilized many rock masses on the southern slopes, the embassy said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
She wrote thousands of songs, but it was television that made her most popular ones, and her, accessible to the masses.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Long, tangled masses of hair fell over her shoulders and cheeks, hiding her expression.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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The overall sound is highly dramatic, with massed voices, quaking beats, horses whinnying in the distance, and percussion that evokes the threat of a rattlesnake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Tens of thousands of demonstrators massed in central Belgrade Saturday to renew calls for early elections that grew out of the anti-corruption movement sparked by a deadly rail station disaster.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
Playing on the title, it opens with a big gospel organ and a massed chorus, before a handbrake turn into lip-smacking rap.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
Among the U.S. servicemembers massed near the berm between Saudi Arabia and Iraq was Mark Hertling, a pensive Army major on his first combat deployment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
They massed in great murmurations—swelling and contracting and swelling again.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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Tankers are already massing outside the Strait to fill up.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Mr. Bernthal, an Emmy winner for “The Bear,” imbues Sonny with a pinballing energy as he gabbles orders at the hostages and begins flailing negotiations with the cops massing outside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Many of the fishing boats involved in the December and January massing events were likely part of China's maritime militia, some experts said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026