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  • But biotechnology research is now carried out in more than two thousand laboratories in America alone.   (source)
    laboratories = workplaces where people do scientific research
  • The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals.   (source)
  • Fortunately, no one else was around when the lab blew up.   (source)
    lab = workplace for scientific or medical research
  • In the lab at school there was a human brain preserved in formaldehyde, and the seniors preparing for college had to take it out and look at it and study it.   (source)
  • They donated their brains to our lab, so we can study them.   (source)
  • It contains a stove (thanks to the fact hat it used to be Mr. Kugler's laboratory) and a sink.   (source)
    laboratory = a workplace where people do scientific or medical research
  • She removed the sleeve and cauterized a patch of lab-grown skin over the open wound.   (source)
    lab = related to a place that does medical work
  • In the vast laboratories of the Ministry of Peace, and in the experimental stations hidden in the Brazilian forests, or in the Australian desert, or on lost islands of the Antarctic, the teams of experts are indefatigably at work.   (source)
    laboratories = workplaces where people do scientific or medical research
  • Above were the search laboratories and the padded rooms in which Sound-Track Writers and Synthetic Composers did the delicate work.   (source)
    laboratories = workplaces where people do scientific research
  • Looked at so closely one sees the fine sand is composed of millions of the tiniest pebbles, as clear as if they had been made in a laboratory.   (source)
    laboratory = a workplace where people do scientific work
  • On the other side of the house, old Roger Chillingworth arranged his study and laboratory: not such as a modern man of science would reckon even tolerably complete, but provided with a distilling apparatus and the means of compounding drugs and chemicals, which the practised alchemist knew well how to turn to purpose.   (source)
    laboratory = workplace for scientific or medical research
  • He then took me into his laboratory and explained to me the uses of his various machines, instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism.   (source)
  • This is no herbal concoction that my mother grinds up out of woodland plants, it's high-tech medicine brewed up in the Capitol's labs.†   (source)
  • The doctor called because of an "urgent finding" on my lab results.†   (source)
  • They'll assume it was a drug-lab accident.†   (source)
  • Roy listened closely for footsteps—sneaking footsteps—but heard only the tick-tick-tick of the clock mounted above the door to the science lab.†   (source)
  • I need to run a lab test on that sputum sample, but there's really not much doubt—the crackle in your right lung is pronounced.†   (source)
  • I let out a frustrated sigh and Matt, my lab partner, gives me a funny look.†   (source)
  • Show her the lab, maybe?†   (source)
  • A white lab coat and stethoscope do not a doctor make, and a dozen trips to the Sears hardware department do not a handyman make.†   (source)
  • The lab wasn't very big.†   (source)
  • In 2007, Idaho National Labs conducted a cyberattack exercise with the Department of Energy.†   (source)
  • During my third-grade science fair project, Mom helped at every stage—from planning the project to assisting with lab notes to assembling the presentation.†   (source)
  • We also had a mixed black Lab, Scamper, whom Cassie and Chris would ride like a horse.†   (source)
  • We went to school together at the University of Cape Town and studied culture and reconciliation—a subject for which post-apartheid South Africa had become a living laboratory.†   (source)
  • She has in her arms a dry-cleaned white lab coat in a protective plastic film.†   (source)
  • The pathologist subsequently performed an autopsy at the Department of Forensic Sciences laboratory in Mobile.†   (source)
  • The dog, a pesky black Lab named Bark, took quickly to Thomas, hanging at his feet the entire tour.†   (source)
  • Six or seven times larger than even the most luxurious of office spaces, the knight's cabinet de travail resembled an ungainly hybrid of science laboratory, archival library, and indoor flea market.†   (source)
  • He mentioned some of the achievements the school had made, and he emphasized how much they needed support at the Community Day Bake Sale to start a new computer lab.†   (source)
  • The science labs were old.†   (source)
  • The lab in Batalla Hall.†   (source)
  • We are human lab rats.†   (source)
  • It's like the control insects at the laboratory.†   (source)
  • They're in the bio lab.†   (source)
  • But Reardan has one of the best small schools in the state, with a computer room and huge chemistry lab and a drama club and two basketball gyms.†   (source)
  • In my opinion, if the world were perfect, everyone would wear lab coats in educational settings, but that obviously was not happening.†   (source)
  • Laboratory†   (source)
  • Then he and I were paired up for a science lab.†   (source)
  • Strangest of all was Enoch, who disappeared into his basement laboratory to perform experimental surgeries on his clay soldiers that would've made Dr. Frankenstein cringe: amputating the limbs from two to make a hideous spider-man of a third, or cramming four chicken hearts into a single chest cavity in an attempt to create a super-clay-man who would never run out of energy.†   (source)
  • Speak of this to no one, but at some future time as yet undetermined, I will enter that lab and become the first bionically improved human.†   (source)
  • She did not shine at all in science courses, especially those pivoting on experiments and lab reports.†   (source)
  • It's more like Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory.†   (source)
  • My parents were Dutch scientists, killed in a laboratory accident when I was a baby.†   (source)
  • But a grappling hook was all Violet could think of to make without a proper inventing laboratory, and time was running short.†   (source)
  • Did you know he visited my lab?†   (source)
  • A carpeted hall led to a room that smelled like a chemistry lab, where two inappropriately cheerful attendants were loosening the screws on the transfer case—another man stacked the plywood against a far wall.†   (source)
  • There's another breakthrough in the lab.†   (source)
  • Maybe David Petrakis My Lab Partner.†   (source)
  • Yes, by the state crime lab.†   (source)
  • This place is like a maze, and me the lab rat.†   (source)
  • I just finished it during computer lab.†   (source)
  • They took her into the room that used to be the Science Lab.†   (source)
  • She's got a chemistry lab to finish.†   (source)
  • It's flavor created from chemicals in a laboratory.†   (source)
  • He had tucked it into my notebook during our Wednesday lab.†   (source)
  • Lab room 4D.†   (source)
  • I saw you yesterday in the labs.†   (source)
  • Now, after years of work and study, he had returned to her laboratory.†   (source)
  • All except the Hooloovoo were resplendent in their multicolored ceremonial lab coats; the Hooloovoo had been temporarily refracted into a free-standing prism for the occasion.†   (source)
  • Jason wasn't sure what to expect at the end—a dungeon, a mad scientist's lab, or maybe a sewer reservoir where all Porta-Potty sludge ends up, forming an evil toilet face large enough to swallow the world.†   (source)
  • The rest of the students had had lots of prior experience in medicine and laboratory work.†   (source)
  • Next week, when I take you for the lab tests.†   (source)
  • Next to me my lab partner, Sam Weingarten, was shaking his head.†   (source)
  • She looked like a bottled fetus that had escaped from its jar of formaldehyde in a Biology lab and unshriveled and thickened with age.†   (source)
  • Saget looked at Langan oddly, as if he were some kind of laboratory specimen.†   (source)
  • So we got the lab to check it out.†   (source)
  • "Have you done this lab before?" he asked.†   (source)
  • I know I'm only a student, but I spend a lot of my lab hours working with children who have Asperger's ...I've seen it up close, and I've also had the chance to meet a number of the adults my professor had interviewed.†   (source)
  • It was only after I saw them scrawled in my science lab book that I saw what Gramps meant.†   (source)
  • So ....laboratory, then.†   (source)
  • He leaned forward over the lab table.†   (source)
  • But then his mother had surprised them, pointing out that there would be nothing for her to do in Ohio for nine months, that his father would be busy all day at the lab, and that she preferred to stay in Massachusetts, even if it meant staying in the house alone.†   (source)
  • This time, Colton literally skipped all the way to the CT scan lab.†   (source)
  • Fred, our obese half-lab yard dog, crouching down with all his hair up and very many teeth showing, facing Hawk who has her neck feathers ruffled out and her beak down as they get ready for head-to-head battle.†   (source)
  • Experiments with laboratory animals in and around the tidal regions had resulted in sudden death for some animals, but the Merlin sickness had not been replicated.†   (source)
  • The other was MAN-ANIMAL CELLS BRED IN LAB.†   (source)
  • Dad cleaned the cages of snakes, tarantulas, lizards and other animals used in the labs.†   (source)
  • Full-frontal Lab attack!†   (source)
  • He's been a star in my lab.†   (source)
  • At last his patient left and Dr. van Veen took the bottle into his small laboratory.†   (source)
  • Probably sold him to a research lab.†   (source)
  • It was said they had offered him a fine laboratory and a wonderful villa with an equally wonderful car, after placing him under the wonderful supervision of the Gestapo to make sure he did not run away rather than making as much vaccine as possible for the louse-infested German army in the east.†   (source)
  • The word MOLLE itself is a trademark for the system developed and manufactured by Natick Labs.†   (source)
  • I stopped at the bio lab, out of breath.†   (source)
  • The sun is barely bright, and farther down the driveway, at the very end, you can see Dave's yellow Lab, Mingus, sitting by the mailbox, looking out at the road.†   (source)
  • Holmes had learned that Chappell was an "articulator," meaning he had mastered the art of stripping the flesh from human bodies and reassembling, or articulating, the bones to form complete skeletons for display in doctors' offices and laboratories.†   (source)
  • Other kids got elected G.O. President and class secretary and lab-squad captain, but I got elected the Bathroom Bomber.†   (source)
  • The radiology lab had struck out.†   (source)
  • I print the e-mail, lab test results and all.†   (source)
  • It was a thrill to walk into the lab there in the Blaylock Building.†   (source)
  • The dentist was tall, sullen, and dirty, with speckles of blood on his lab coat and a pubic mstache.†   (source)
  • The laboratory had been dusted off.†   (source)
  • If you came by, you would see blonde-haired Otis, who looked to be a mixture of half Lab and half golden retriever, walking down our long dirt driveway at the farm and toward the house, keeping my mom company ...and safe.†   (source)
  • A man described by authorities as one evolutionary step above a banana slug has recently admitted to having been locked in the Sacajawea Junior High biology lab over a long weekend nearly sixteen years ago when he fell asleep and was mistaken as a cadaver.†   (source)
  • All that was needed was a modest amount of laboratory equipment, and that could be found in a chemistry set for children for a few hundred kronor, along with several ingredients that could be extracted from ordinary household products.†   (source)
  • After an awkward moment, Dr. Begbie stuffed her hand back into the pocket of her lab coat, but not before letting it stray over the restraint securing my left hand to the bed's guardrail.†   (source)
  • Molly is tempted to say, Damn, you mean I have to shut down my meth lab?†   (source)
  • A late-night biology lab to mix a little chloroform, and pool!†   (source)
  • All the laboratory evidence is against him.†   (source)
  • The chemistry lab?†   (source)
  • His van had been given a thorough going-over by Massachusetts lab technicians and forensic experts.†   (source)
  • I spilled it in his laboratory.†   (source)
  • Their white lab coats make them seem tall and pure.†   (source)
  • The lab stuff is mindblowing—better than Thai stick.†   (source)
  • He shared his doubts with no one, but he took the bottle to his laboratory.†   (source)
  • I had decided it would be my rocket laboratory.†   (source)
  • My mother is the head of a lab back in Bankston.†   (source)
  • I didn't see anything wrong with it just as long as I kept in mind that I was old Ellen not a laboratory doctor.†   (source)
  • This has been proved in the laboratory.†   (source)
  • Who can I infect here in my lab?†   (source)
  • Vee was in the eZine lab.†   (source)
  • Suddenly the lab was filled with the sweet smell of grapes.†   (source)
  • I'd have gotten lost, somewhere between gym and the chem lab.†   (source)
  • The lab technician then drew blood from each of them.†   (source)
  • The media center was lined with row after row of books—thousands of them—but it also had a very cool, up-to-date computer lab.†   (source)
  • I've been in the lab.†   (source)
  • "Now for a look at the workshops," she cried, whisking him through another door and into a large abandoned laboratory full of old pieces of equipment, all untended and rusting.†   (source)
  • Put them back on the lab table.†   (source)
  • I'll arrange for you to come up to my dog lab.†   (source)
  • Brushing against him during labs.†   (source)
  • By Friday, when the court recessed for the weekend, the state had completed its case, which included the appearance of four Special Agents of the Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C. These men, laboratory technicians skilled in various categories of scientific crime detection, had studied the physical evidence connecting the accused to the murders (blood samples, footprints, cartridge shells, rope and tape), and each of them certified the validity of the exhibits.†   (source)
  • If he had been a dog in a city, a policeman would have shot him and sent his head to a laboratory, to see if he had rabies.†   (source)
  • She rocked her on and on, past Dachau, where soul-gutted Jewish mothers swept their children's entrails off laboratory floors.†   (source)
  • Taber is wheeled out of the lab on a Gurney bed.†   (source)
  • I get to use this house as my studio, my science project, my laboratory, and my showroom.†   (source)
  • A behavioral scientist could hardly design a better experiment in his laboratory.†   (source)
  • He runs the computer lab and opens it up before classes begin, mostly for Cedric.†   (source)
  • Our days were filled with classes and laboratories and our nights with study.†   (source)
  • For the next few weeks, Adam was on time for every date, which included taking Kelley's dog, a chocolate Lab named Sidney, to swim at the lake, attending church, and holding hands on long walks.†   (source)
  • Thus, we have no reason to grieve for a dog being carved up alive in the laboratory.†   (source)
  • We had blackboards, new desks, reference books, lab supplies.†   (source)
  • You don't have a computer lab, or any kind of computer training here?†   (source)
  • You're at the lab?†   (source)
  • He was in a laboratory testing himself—proving he could work on human dogs.†   (source)
  • He had a dog with him, a yellow Lab, and he had on worn jeans, too baggy to be fitted but not big enough to be cool, and a blue button-down shirt.†   (source)
  • Instead, he worked as a lab technician.†   (source)
  • They were going to have the newest microscopes and chemistry equipment for their laboratory.†   (source)
  • Max might have been a laboratory rat.†   (source)
  • I was, by my very presence, a walking lab, a field trip.†   (source)
  • The medical complex contains two laboratories.†   (source)
  • With a group of California scientists who dubbed themselves the "Traitorous Eight," after defecting from the laboratory of infamously tempestuous Nobel laureate William Shockley, he had invented a type of integrated circuit that paved the way for the silicon chip.†   (source)
  • Technicians from a "pool" lab would develop it.†   (source)
  • They were shown the sports facilities and science labs.†   (source)
  • I seem to remember Luke switching lab partners behind your back so he could sit next to her.†   (source)
  • Now, one day Tom's in his laboratory working on a machine that can see through a brick wall when this man comes in and says, 'Mr.†   (source)
  • No lab.†   (source)
  • After napping through geometry and accidentally freezing Mrs. Patterson's beaker to the lab table in chemistry, Vlad stumbled into a lunchtime oasis.†   (source)
  • The setting was the Philosophy Room of Harvard Hall, the old laboratory of Adams's favorite professor, Winthrop.†   (source)
  • I'm just not sure if I want to be a nurse or a doctor or do some kind of lab work.†   (source)
  • There was the time Shari had to kill and dissect Mr. Jingles, her university-assigned lab rat, in order to pass advanced behavioral neuroscience, and Chaz urged her to spare Mr. Jingles by surreptitiously replacing him with a look-alike rat he found at PetSmart in the mall.†   (source)
  • Nick Kerrigan is recording it for me in the music lab and he likes me and he'll stay as long as I need.†   (source)
  • Lab and x-ray were in two connected rooms with people always coming in and out through the swinging doors with their hands full and their shoes squeaking on the black linoleum.†   (source)
  • Tell that to the laboratory techs, who have eight fragments of glass that spell out two prints.†   (source)
  • Come to my lab in an hour.†   (source)
  • Up in the lab?†   (source)
  • But she didn't want to meet him behind the science lab.†   (source)
  • We have cabinets full of alcohol, laboratories full.†   (source)
  • How else could a science of psychology be built except by laboratory findings?†   (source)
  • The laboratory.†   (source)
  • Or something more definite than that, strong waves of unfriendliness he can actually feel coming toward him, toward his seat at the back of the room in chemistry lab.†   (source)
  • Another time, I was asked to wear a biohazard suit to feed a laboratory monkey.†   (source)
  • She put her arm around Clary's shoulders, turning them both so that they faced the doors that led to the waiting room for the lab where people got their blood taken.†   (source)
  • Meth lab in the basement?†   (source)
  • The research laboratory?†   (source)
  • Minutes later myself and Finn Nielsen plus some eager guns headed by capsule for laboratory area.†   (source)
  • The lab reports came in.†   (source)
  • Like a mad scientist plotting revenge in an underground laboratory, for crying out loud.†   (source)
  • With his master gone, he, Akar Kessell, would be rightfully awarded his own meditation chamber and alchemy lab in the Hosttower of the Arcane in Luskan.†   (source)
  • Welcome to the Stanford Lab.†   (source)
  • Some schools were spending more on metal detectors than on lab equipment.†   (source)
  • The doctor went to a cabinet, poured some grappa from a five-liter can into a laboratory flask, and presented it to Alessandro.†   (source)
  • When I let them out into the biology lab for a bit of a fly round, I wouldn't have expected them to eat the curtains.†   (source)
  • Making people in a lab.†   (source)
  • There was someone who worked in the lab down the hall ... Miri†   (source)
  • And the top-secret laboratories where the bomb had been created were deep in the Jemez Mountains, on land the Government took from Cochiti Pueblo: Los Alamos, only a hundred miles northeast of him now, still surrounded by high electric fences and the ponderosa pine and tawny sandrock of the Jemez mountain canyon where the shrine of the twin mountain lions had always been.†   (source)
  • I pray for the doctors in the laboratory.†   (source)
  • He puts his duck calls around his neck and his black Lab, Trace, happily jumps into the truck.†   (source)
  • Three doctors and a few lab rats could control fifty mirrors.†   (source)
  • He got a call from the lab a few days later.†   (source)
  • Or test that in a lab, or tell that to our students, which is the same thing.†   (source)
  • Like everyone else, she was wearing a blue lab coat and a hairnet.†   (source)
  • In April, her children noticed that she'd started calling the dog "Clarence," although Clarence had died years ago and Brenda was a whole different color, golden retriever instead of black Lab.†   (source)
  • The teacher ran up to me and with a long clamp angrily poured my creation down the drain and flunked me on that day's lab assignment.†   (source)
  • Don't ask me how she knew we were leaving, but there was Cooper's best girl friend, Satch, a little chubby black Lab.†   (source)
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