Thetis
Americannoun
noun
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You’ll find a handful of overnight accommodations on Thetis, and also a one-room schoolhouse that’s still in operation — one of the last in Canada.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
Thetis Pharmaceuticals is planning trials of a synthetic resolvin for cases of inflammatory bowel disease and cancer.
From Science Magazine ● May 4, 2022
Justin Nadolny, of the cutter Thetis, calling their survival a “remarkable story of resiliency and grit.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2021
Through language that, like the sea nymph Thetis, shape-shifts between poetry, lyricism, email transcripts, theater and prose, “Wake, Siren” reveals the violence, the pain and the triumph in age-old tales made poignantly new.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2019
They had fifty lovely daughters, the nymphs of the Sea, called Nereids from their father’s name, one of whom, Thetis, was the mother of Achilles.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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