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  • We're seeing some very strange microbe activity here.  (source)
    microbe = a living organism such as a bacterium, or virus that is so small, it can be seen only with a microscope
  • What if there are bacterial microbes in the water?  (source)
    microbes = living organisms to small to see without a microscope
  • County officials say they eliminated the springs out of concern that bathers might become gravely ill from virulent microbes thought to flourish in the thermal pools.†  (source)
    microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
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  • Certainly I'm no mad exterminator bent on killing devil microbes; on the contrary, I admire them.†  (source)
    microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
  • A microbe, it was right here, I was looking right at it, and now it's gone.†  (source)
    microbe = a living organism such as a bacterium, or virus that is so small, it can be seen only with a microscope
  • I read his dissertation on the evolution of microbial pathogens....†  (source)
  • Shelter, a high-security antimicrobial complex with safety in event of level contamination.†  (source)
    antimicrobial = working against microbes
    standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antimicrobial means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
  • We couldn't drink the water unless we ran it through our Katadyn pump for filtering out dangerous microbes.†  (source)
    microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
  • I know it's hard for you to understand about size, how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.†  (source)
    microbe = a living organism such as a bacterium, or virus that is so small, it can be seen only with a microscope
  • Theno says that the industry's long-standing resistance to microbial testing is a form of denial.†  (source)
  • Inside its shell the three of them went about their early evening routine, like microbes trapped in the intestine of a monster.†  (source)
    microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
  • And it's a forbidding place: dry or wet, but always hot, full of microbe-filled water and leeches the size of snakes, rice paddies and mountains and shell craters.†  (source)
    microbe = a living organism such as a bacterium, or virus that is so small, it can be seen only with a microscope
  • An almost fanatical devotion to microbial testing, however, be came the key to Theno's food safety program.†  (source)
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