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Examples
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But, Nick's ex, Tris, is there too ... with her new boyfriend, and that's something he just can't handle yet.
Rabid Reads: "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 2009
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Plus, one of her former childhood friends, Tris, is there and that's something she can't quite handle at the moment.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Plus, one of her former childhood friends, Tris, is there and that's something she can't quite handle at the moment.
Rabid Reads: "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 2009
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But, Nick's ex, Tris, is there too ... with her new boyfriend, and that's something he just can't handle yet.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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This, for instance, relates to a genetically enhanced climber called Tris who has wrenched her muscles during an arduous trek on her way to try and assassinate the Emperor: Imagine that someone has cooked thread noodles, the tiny almost translucent kind, so that they are too flexible to snap like dry twigs but need another ten seconds or so to become properly soft.
Archive 2010-01-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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Her research and an article she wrote for the prestigious journal Science helped convince the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban a fire retardant known as Tris that damaged DNA and was absorbed into children's bodies from their sleepwear.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Ruth Rosen, AlterNet 2010
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Her research and an article she wrote for the prestigious journal Science helped convince the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban a fire retardant known as Tris that damaged DNA and was absorbed into children's bodies from their sleepwear.
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PBDEs themselves came onto the market after some of their predecessor flame retardants - among them PBBs (polybrominated biphenyls) and perhaps most notoriously a compound known as "Tris" that was used in children's pajamas was linked to cancer in animal studies.
Elizabeth Grossman: Toxic Flame Retardant on Its Way Out: Will What Follows be Safe? 2009
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One of the most common buffers used in molecular and cell biology labs is "Tris," short for a base called tris (hydroxymethyl) aminomethane.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Abel Pharmboy none@example.com 2010
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"Tris" Speaker's rise in a few seasons from the minors to the highest salaried star in the game is without parallel in baseball or any other sport.
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