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Example sentences for: brakes

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Cells were pelleted at 400 g for five minutes without brakes, the supernatant was decanted and the pellet was loosened by vortexing at setting 4. Cells were washed with 1% BSA/PBS and repelleted.
Putting the brakes on biologically driven human betterment would have real consequences for science.
Whenever wages start to go up a bit--God forbid, workers should see their salaries jump--Wall Street gets jittery about inflation and the Fed pumps the brakes.
More to the point, if the economy grows any faster than it is now, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan will just slam on the brakes.
Most of the old names for vehicles' constituent parts persist in our newer machines too: wheels and tires and axles and brakes and springs , of course; but also the collective name for all this stuff, the under-carriage now applied to cars and trains and even airplanes!