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How to use the word filaments in a Sentence?

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When I saw the richness of the turbulence around the Jovian cyclones, with all the filaments and smaller eddies, it reminded me of the turbulence you see in the ocean around eddies, these are especially evident in high-resolution satellite images of vortices in Earth's oceans that are revealed by plankton blooms that act as tracers of the flow.

– Lia Siegelman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These large structures make up the filaments of the cosmic web, with the FRB catalog, we have detected this correlation between FRBs and large-scale structure. This is really, really exciting and ushers in a new era of( fast radio burst) cosmology.

– Alex Josephy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These organisms seem to have been able to quickly colonise the sea floor, and we often see one dominant species on these fossil beds, how this happens ecologically has been a longstanding question -- these filaments may explain how they were able to do that.

– Alex Liu

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We don't know the chemical nature of these molecules yet, but we suspect they may play a role in the assembly of tau into filaments, and that their abundance may determine why some individuals develop CTE and others do not.

– Sjors Scheres

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Our new knowledge of these structures could make it possible to diagnose CTE in living patients by developing tracer compounds that will specifically bind to the tau filaments of CTE.

– Michel Goedert

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If the friendship of the good be interrupted, their minds admit of no long change; as when the stalks of a lotus are broken the filaments within them are more visibly cemented.

– The Hitopadesa

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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