main body
Americannoun
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Specialized proteins carry these barcodes from the neuron's main body to the synapse, the point where two neurons meet.
From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026
The main body of the show, mounted in capacious glass cabinets, is organized around his most notable books.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
Firefighters had anticipated that the blaze would eventually move in this direction and reiterated that the main body of the fire remained inside primary containment lines and that things were still going as planned.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
That's to say, the main body of the tour as opposed to the era when the Lions used Australia for warm-up Tests ahead of the big stuff against South and New Zealand?
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025
The more complicated adventures undertaken by composers with notation, orchestras, opera singers, conductors, musicological analysis and the rest are still vital parts of music’s main body, but they are not in truth its central purpose.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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