Jacobina
Americannoun
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The study tracked the effects of a field trial of GM Aedes aegypti mosquitoes created by the company Oxitec and released in Jacobina, Brazil, between 2013 and 2015.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 1, 2019
To see whether the survivors fared well enough in the wild to spread their DNA, he contacted Oxitec’s collaborators on the eve of a large field trial in the Brazilian city of Jacobina.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 17, 2019
Alone in a desolate plantation house, Jacobina, a sub-lieutenant in the National Guard, finds his reflection growing dimmer and less distinct.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2013
Jacobina, 13, plays the harp and studies at a private school in Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
Come, Jacobina, we will lock up the house, and go and see the quarters I have provided for you.—
From Eugene Aram — Volume 01 by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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