mass in
Britishverb
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Ebola vaccines would not be used en mass in the same way as during the Covid pandemic.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Many other weight-loss drugs target body mass in general, which can lead to a reduction in muscle and lean tissue in addition to fat, the executive said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
"Fragile is the flesh of defenseless populations, tried by so many wars, ongoing or concluded, leaving behind rubble and open wounds," the pope said at the mass in St Peter's Basilica.
From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025
So a healthy glacier gains as much mass in the upper areas as it loses in the lower areas.
From Slate • Dec. 19, 2025
Zwicky also was the first to recognize that there wasn’t nearly enough visible mass in the universe to hold galaxies together and that there must be some other gravitational influence–what we now call dark matter.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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