Example Sentences

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Next, the researchers used a viral vector to reintroduce MYCT1 to see if its presence could restore blood stem cell self-renewal in a lab dish.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2024

"Embedded within the achievements of American history are the tools of self-betterment and self-renewal that our country has always deployed on the journey to become a more perfect union," the letter continues.

From Fox News • Aug. 17, 2021

Ravel is “a musical organism which had lost its power of self-renewal and was ineluctably headed for its own destruction.”

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2019

Perry’s film charts Becky’s self-destruction, self-reckoning and tentative self-renewal in five kinetic, unstinting acts, with a kind of updated, pressed-to-the-glass John Cassavetes energy.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2019

In that verdure he has rested; he has drunk forgetfulness and self-renewal from those deep wells of sleep.

From The Mettle of the Pasture by Allen, James Lane