cleave

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• These bacteria produce antibiotic-cleaving enzymes that work as molecular scissors, which are released into and kept inside the periplasmic space.

• Questions immediately arose about what could have caused more than 50 apartments to suddenly cleave away from the rest of the building.

• Some limestone is cleaved from the cliff with a pickaxe and burned in a kiln.

• Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker cleaves even more closely to scientific laboratories, following the personalities behind the making of CRISPR.

• More recently, universalism has become a dividing line of its own that cleaves through traditional conceptions of political “left” and “right.”

• Van Cleave maintains that in this day and age, however, Digital Detox Week is "unimplementable."

• Were the members of them to receive the truth, and jointly to cleave to it, these societies would thereby perish.

• In Covenanting, there should be made engagements to cleave to new correct views of truth and duty.

• His tongue would cleave to his mouth in a woman's presence, let alone his lying to her.

• She would cleave to the good God Lucifer, and she aspired to be the bride of Asmodeus.

• Lift high the sword, cleave down the haughty warrior, And dip thy spear in blood, thou son of Odin!