Example sentences for: disappearance

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  • McCain's increasing visibility is attributed to the disappearance of half the Republican campaign field, a floundering Forbes, a best-selling memoir, and the ability to draw in the politically disenchanted.

  • Jim Chee must solve a murder and explain the disappearance of a biologist who was studying the reservation's plague-carrying desert rodents.

  • Clinical data indicate that the peak incidence of HUS occurs around two years of age, but the disease clearly occurs in significant numbers of older children [ 1 ] . Population-based studies suggest that there is a decline in the incidence of HUS from a peak at age 1-2 years until a nadir at about age 11 years [ 1 2 ] . In addition, a case-control study of the Washington State outbreak of HUS revealed that the mean age of patients with HUS was 8 years, while the mean age of patients without HUS was 15 years [ 3 ] . These studies raise the possibility, therefore, that the appearance or disappearance of a factor or factors in adolescents and adults reduces susceptibility to end-organ injury in HUS.

  • This suggests that disappearance of TBP and TAF II 135 in extracts from differentiated cells does not occur at the transcriptional level, but rather results from a post-transcriptional event.

  • There are telltale characteristics, widely if not universally present: the replacement of an initial "th" with a "d" sound ("dis," "dem") and of a medial or final "th" by an "f" or other consonant sound ("with" becomes "wif," "brother" becomes "bruvah"); a reduction of consonant clusters in general (so that "first" becomes "firs" and "hand" becomes "han"); the replacement of a final "r" sound with a vowel sound ("summah" for "summer" and "mo" for "more"); the prevalence of so-called plosive consonants (making a word such as "bill" sound more like "beel"); the placement of stress on a first, rather than a second, syllable ("DEE-troit"); the disappearance of the final "s" from third-person singular verbs ("what go 'round, come 'round"); the dropping of the copula ("I here," "the coffee cold") and of certain tense inflections altogether.


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