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Styr

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[steer, stir] / stɪər, stɪr /

noun

  1. a river in northwestern Ukraine, flowing north to the Pripet River. 300 miles (480 km) long.


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A 2021 study led by Maimon Rose and Boaz Styr, then both members of Yartsev's lab, revealed that when one bat emits a call, it induces collective brain coupling among all listening bats.

From Scientific American Jun. 16, 2023

Alliser Thorne and Tormund, they were one of the standouts, and then of course John and Styr was the other one.

From Time Jun. 9, 2014

To the northwest of it the Germans under General Linsingen began a counterattack on October 7, 1915, and threw the Russians across the Styr.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan

These forests form a natural stronghold, of which the Ikva and the Styr may be compared to immense moats protecting it on two sides.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

None of these, however, had any effect, nor were other very occasional attacks west of Rovno and on the Styr of more avail.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan

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