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Around the world, scientists are quietly trying to figure out how to embryonically boost genes that contribute to intelligence and athletic ability.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2020

According to optimists, the future of air transport is embryonically visible in the laboratories, wind tunnels, charts, tables, mathematical equations, blueprints and brains of aeronautical scientists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every man came with one deep-rooted determination and that was to see that no one "put anything over" which might make an organization so embryonically useful take a fatal or selfish step.

From The Story of The American Legion by Wheat, George Seay

Hunt perceived that this daring, world-defying, embryonically beautiful model of his had idealized the homecoming nephew of the Duchess into her especial hero.

From Children of the Whirlwind by Scott, Leroy

Some of these attachments might be reduced or absent in special cases, but they seem to have been the ones originally present both phylogenetically and embryonically in Amphibia.

From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)