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Example sentences for: scions

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(1997) found that silenced class II rootstocks were able to silence class I scions.
She has been practicing for this inevitable terrible event lately, scoring Elizabeth Dole as Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , admitting to a fondness for John McCain, and having great fun at the expense of Al Gore and George W. Bush, the two scions likely to fight it out in 2000.
When we started working on the silencing signal ourselves, we repeated some of the above experiments but found somehow lower efficiencies in the initiation of silencing in the scions.
Respectable writers sneered at the tabs for their millions of lumpen readers; their fabricated or (worse) purchased stories; and their raffish British editors, who behaved more like blackmailers than like scions of the Fourth Estate.
We soon realized that our results were influenced by the developmental stage of our scions.