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mass

[mas] / mæs /




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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

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

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

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