rats
Britishinterjection
adjective
Example Sentences
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To overcome these challenges, researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation and the University of California San Diego turned to rats.
From Science Daily
When everything from the rats to the Christmas tree get bigger, so does Clara as she goes from a young girl to an adolescent.
From Los Angeles Times
The team measured the stress hormone corticosterone in the rats, which is the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.
From Science Daily
She explained that rats were chosen for the behavioral portion of the research because they typically perform more consistently than mice on longer and more complex tasks.
From Science Daily
No character in film this year has sparked more conversation than Perfidia, who rats out members of the French 75 to avoid prison and abandons her daughter in the haze of postpartum depression.
From Los Angeles Times
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