mitotic figure

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The microscopic appearance of a cell undergoing mitosis.

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There were rumors of shrieks and flashes emanating from the well, and reports of a figure in white.
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Even other men of color considered Revels a curious figure, for Mississippi had never had a large free black population.
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The people who are involved in the violence, they figure out ways to remain here at all costs and continue causing trouble.
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Several of them disputed the figure of six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust.
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But the last national figure to wield ancient personal authority in an explicitly religious way was Robert F. Kennedy.
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He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
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Their opportunities and earnings are relatively small, and in order to live they must figure closely.
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It was when the face and figure of a great tragedian began to haunt her imagination and stir her senses.
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Tressan fell suddenly to groaning and wringing his hands a pathetic figure had it been less absurd.
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Her tall figure—she was taller than he by at least three inches—was beautiful in its commanding, yet not vulgar, self-possession.
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