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These bacteria produce antibiotic-cleaving enzymes that work as molecular scissors, which are released into and kept inside the periplasmic space.

Questions immediately arose about what could have caused more than 50 apartments to suddenly cleave away from the rest of the building.

Some limestone is cleaved from the cliff with a pickaxe and burned in a kiln.

Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker cleaves even more closely to scientific laboratories, following the personalities behind the making of CRISPR.

More recently, universalism has become a dividing line of its own that cleaves through traditional conceptions of political “left” and “right.”

Van Cleave maintains that in this day and age, however, Digital Detox Week is "unimplementable."

Were the members of them to receive the truth, and jointly to cleave to it, these societies would thereby perish.

In Covenanting, there should be made engagements to cleave to new correct views of truth and duty.

His tongue would cleave to his mouth in a woman's presence, let alone his lying to her.

She would cleave to the good God Lucifer, and she aspired to be the bride of Asmodeus.

Lift high the sword, cleave down the haughty warrior, And dip thy spear in blood, thou son of Odin!