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  • Certainly I'm no mad exterminator bent on killing devil microbes; on the contrary, I admire them.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 6 percent of the ground beef contained microbes that are spread primarily by fecal material.†   (source)
  • A cloud-eating microbe or whatever.†   (source)
  • I read his dissertation on the evolution of microbial pathogens….†   (source)
  • Once they felt better but long before they were cured, patients stopped taking their pills, the professionals said, and patients did this in part because they didn't believe tb came from microbes but believed it was sent to them by enemies, via sorcery.†   (source)
  • And the title of the book: The Microbe Hunters.†   (source)
  • We couldn't drink the water unless we ran it through our Katadyn pump for filtering out dangerous microbes.†   (source)
  • She'd always loved the story of Pasteur's discovery of microbes, or Lister's experiments with antisepsis.†   (source)
  • It kills off any of the microbes that might infect the wound.†   (source)
  • There has to be meat in the dish, there have to be vegetables forbidden to flower, seeds forbidden to germinate; even the cycles of microbes must be sacrificed for us to continue our cycles.†   (source)
  • All the years at high speed on the backs of dangerous horses, all the years clinging to precipices and ledges above the clouds, and all the bayonets, artillery shells, and machine-gun bullets that had been marvelously rerouted around him, were to be overshadowed by a microbe that felled him in a cheap hotel.†   (source)
  • Of course, it might have been a model, enormously enlarged as were microbes and insects in terrestrial museums.†   (source)
  • It kills influenza microbes, for instance.†   (source)
  • 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
  • Davis's microbe-soaked tongue on your neck.   (source)
    microbe = a living organisms so small it can only be seen with a microscope
  • I told Daisy about the texting and the kissing and the eighty million microbes.   (source)
    microbes = living organisms so small they can only be seen with a microscope
  • A microbe that ate the tar in asphalt had turned several interstate highways to sand.   (source)
    microbe = a living organism such as a bacterium, or virus that is so small, it can be seen only with a microscope
  • Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever.   (source)
    microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
  • Maybe you're gonna get superpowers from his microbes.   (source)
    microbes = living organisms so small they can only be seen with a microscope
  • Well, your worry expressed itself as being about microbial exchange.   (source)
    microbial = relating to living organisms so small a microscope is needed to view them
  • As for immunity from microbes, what had until now been done with drugs would soon be innate.   (source)
    microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
  • On the other hand, maybe his microbes are better than yours, right?   (source)
    microbes = living organisms so small they can only be seen with a microscope
  • check to see if his microbes stay in you billions of people kiss and don't die   (source)
  • And now I'm crying harder, because I haven't unpacked my towels, and wet clothing reminds me of those stupid water rides Bridgette and Matt used to drag me on at Six Flags where the water is the wrong color and it smells like paint and it has a billion trillion bacterial microbes in it.   (source)
    microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
  • Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries.   (source)
    microbe = a living organism such as a bacterium, or virus that is so small, it can be seen only with a microscope
  • Crake had nose cones for them too, the latest model, not just to filter microbes but also to skim out particulate.   (source)
    microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
  • I was worried about microbial exchange.   (source)
    microbial = relating to living organisms so small a microscope is needed to view them
  • The bad microbes and viruses want to get in through the cell doors and eat up the pigoons from the inside.   (source)
    microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
  • The ones that were pulling those capers, the asphalt-eating microbes, the outbreak of neon-coloured herpes simplex on the west coast, the ChickieNob wasps and so on.   (source)
  • MICROBIANCA, Queen of the Microbes.   (source)
    microbes = living organisms so small they can only be seen with a microscope
  • Like, his tongue will sort of always be in my mouth until I'm dead, and then his tongue microbes will eat my corpse.   (source)
  • But the rakunks caught on as pets, inside OrganInc They hadn't come in from the outside world — the world outside the Compound — so they had no foreign microbes and were safe for the pigoons.   (source)
    microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
  • billions of people kiss and don't die just make sure his microbes aren't going to permanently colonize you   (source)
    microbes = living organisms so small they can only be seen with a microscope
  • She let Jimmy play with the pictures on her computer, and once he learned how to run the programs, he could play war games with them — cells versus microbes.   (source)
    microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
  • I could feel her breath on me that night as she slept, her lips parted, smudged eyes closed, the microbes from her lungs floating across my cheek.   (source)
    microbes = living organisms so small they can only be seen with a microscope
  • The microbes will get into them!   (source)
    microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
  • The goal of the pigoon project was to grow an assortment of foolproof human-tissue organs ... that ... would also be able to fend off attacks by opportunistic microbes and viruses, of which there were more strains every year.   (source)
  • Around eighty million microbes are exchanged on average per kiss, and "after six-month follow-up, human gut microbiomes appear to be modestly but consistently altered."   (source)
    microbes = living organisms so small they can only be seen with a microscope
  • Instead, I ended up on Wikipedia, reading about fan fiction and Star Wars, and then I found myself reading the same old articles about the human microbiota and studies of how people's microbial makeup had shaped and, in some cases, killed them.   (source)
    microbial = relating to living organisms so small a microscope is needed to view them
  • On her computer screen she showed Jimmy pictures of the cells, pictures of the microbes, pictures of the microbes getting into the cells and infecting them and bursting them open, close-up pictures of the proteins, pictures of the drugs she had once tested.   (source)
    microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
  • I told myself to be in this moment, to let myself feel his warmth on my skin, but now his tongue was on my neck, wet and alive and microbial, and his hand was sneaking under my jacket, his cold fingers against my bare skin.   (source)
    microbial = relating to living organisms so small a microscope is needed to view them
  • But it's not even about dying, really—like, if I knew I was dying, and I kissed you good-bye, literally my last thought wouldn't be about the fact that I was dying; it would be about the eighty million microbes that we'd just exchanged.   (source)
    microbes = living organisms so small they can only be seen with a microscope
  • There are something like a thousand times more microbes living in my particular biome than there are human beings on earth, and it often seems like I can feel them living and breeding and dying in and on me.   (source)
  • I could half hear Mychal telling Daisy about his new art project, in which he was using Photoshop to average the faces of a hundred people named Mychal, and the average of their faces would be this new, one-hundred-and-first Mychal, which was an interesting idea, and I wanted to listen, but the cafeteria was so loud, and I couldn't stop wondering whether there was something wrong with the microbial balance of power inside me.   (source)
    microbial = relating to living organisms so small a microscope is needed to view them
  • "You said before that I wasn't contagious after my body got rid of those microbes."†   (source)
  • We've never really accepted microbes into our lives.†   (source)
  • I've had needles poked at me and prongs stuck in my head and poisonous microbes—"†   (source)
  • When all the microbes have disappeared, have her taken into lab four.†   (source)
  • This is where we injected the letumosis-carrying microbes.†   (source)
  • DUDARD: Perhaps it doesn't kill all microbes.†   (source)
  • Back then I was still a bit appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microbes that eat the human cornea.†   (source)
  • Efforts to eradicate E. coli 0157:H7 have been complicated by the fact that it is an extraordinarily hearty microbe that is easy to transmit.†   (source)
  • It's too bad modern writers lost the generic "fever" and the mystery malady when modern medicine got so it could identify virtually any microbe and thereby diagnose virtually any disease.†   (source)
  • Anyone who brings raw ground beef into his or her kitchen today must regard it as a potential biohazard, one that may carry an extremely dangerous microbe, infectious at an extremely low dose.†   (source)
  • Even if you assume that only 1 percent are infected, that means three or four cattle bearing the microbe are eviscerated at a large slaughterhouse every hour.†   (source)
  • The companies that manufactured hamburger patties for Jack in the Box were required to test their beef every fifteen minutes for a wide range of dangerous microbes, including E. coli 0157:H7.†   (source)
  • "What's going to happen next is that the med-droid is going to inject you with a one-tenth solution of letumosis microbes.†   (source)
  • Once your body enters into the first stage of the disease, your immune system will kick in and try to destroy the microbes, but it will fail.†   (source)
  • As you can see, the microbes are gone.†   (source)
  • Just more germs, an all-pervading medium of pathogens, microbes, floating colonies of spirochetes that fuse and separate and elongate and spiral and engulf, whole trainloads of matter that people cough forth, rudimentary and deadly.†   (source)
  • To think of the millions that the armies of the world had spent on "kits" like this, or to think that before Pasteur's discovery of microbes, doctors fought duels over the merits of balsam of Peru versus tar oil for wound infection.†   (source)
  • Theno says that the industry's long-standing resistance to microbial testing is a form of denial.†   (source)
  • Microbial testing would determine the grades, and the marketplace would reward companies that ranked highest.†   (source)
  • An almost fanatical devotion to microbial testing, however, became the key to Theno's food safety program.†   (source)
  • During the 1980s, as the risks of widespread contamination increased, the meatpacking industry blocked the use of microbial testing in the federal meat inspection program.†   (source)
  • The USDA has the power to conduct microbial tests on cattle that have already been slaughtered, but cannot test live cattle in order to keep infected animals out of slaughterhouses.†   (source)
  • When McDonald's demanded ground beef free of lethal pathogens, the five companies that manufacture its hamburger patties increased their investment in new equipment and microbial testing.†   (source)
  • On September 29, 1993, his replacement, Michael R. Taylor, announced that E. coli 0157:H7 would henceforth be considered an illegal adulterant, that no ground beef contaminated with it could be sold, and that the USDA would begin random microbial testing to remove it from the nation's food supply.†   (source)
  • Under the new regulations, every slaughterhouse and processing plant in the United States would by the end of the decade have to implement a government-approved HACCP plan and submit meat to the USDA for microbial testing.†   (source)
  • But"-Tarrou smiled-"do try at least not to propagate the microbe deliberately."†   (source)
  • What's natural is the microbe.†   (source)
  • If it stood by itself, it might just be worth considering, but when you tack it on to all sorts of other things that are absolutely impossible--all this about the lamas being hundreds of years old, and having discovered a sort of elixir of youth, or whatever you'd call it …. well, it just makes me wonder what kind of microbe has bitten you, that's all.†   (source)
  • …avatar as the overblown rose or magnolia elides from one rich June to the next, leaving no bones, no substance, no dust of whatever dead pristine soulless rich surrender anywhere between sun and earth) but produced complete and subject to no microbe in that cloyed and scented maze of shuttered silk as if he were the delicate and perverse spirit-symbol, immortal page of the ancient immortal Lilith, entering the actual world not at the age of one second but of twelve years, the delicate…†   (source)
  • "When a microbe, " Rieux said, "after a short intermission can quadruple in three days' time the volume of the spleen, can swell the mesenteric ganglia to the size of an orange and give them the consistency of gruel, a policy of wait-and-see is, to say the least of it, unwise.†   (source)
  • —a very dangerous microbe, and if you will kindly direct me—†   (source)
  • "Martin Arrowsmith, if you think for one moment that I'm ever going to marry a vulgar, crude, selfish, microbe-grubbing smart aleck—"†   (source)
  • There must of necessity be a chemistry of nonmatter, of unsubstantial compounds, from which matter then arose, just as organisms had come from inorganic compounds, and atoms would then be the microbes and protozoa of matter—substantial by nature, and yet not really.†   (source)
  • He laughed at it, he remembered with professional scorn how foolish were the lay visitors to the laboratory, who believed that sanguinary microbes would leap upon them from the mysterious centrifuge, from the benches, from the air itself.†   (source)
  • There was apparently no one in Queen City who regarded him as other than a cranky Jew catching microbes by their little tails and leering at them—no work for a tall man at a time when heroes were building bridges, experimenting with Horseless Carriages, writing the first of the poetic Compelling Ads, and selling miles of calico and cigars.†   (source)
  • I evolve my own system of philosophy and all of you seem to crawl at my feet like so many insects or microbes.†   (source)
  • Shelter, a high-security antimicrobial complex with safety in event of level contamination.†   (source)
    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.
  • Rub off the microbes with your handkerchief.†   (source)
  • New set of microbes.†   (source)
  • Of the eons of geological periods recorded in the stratifications of the earth: of the myriad minute entomological organic existences concealed in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white bodies,…†   (source)
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