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- noun Plural form of
chaperone . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
chaperone .
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Examples
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The purpose of chaperones is to keep your ear to the ground and sniff out issues.
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Monsters | Her Bad Mother 2009
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Flowers_; and with a dozen "chaperones" -- whom I always suspected of taking in washing during the winter months, -- lined up as closely as was possible to the door, as if in preparation for the hotel's catching fire any moment, to give us pessimistic observal.
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918
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The study, published in Cell Metabolism, found two "chaperones" -- 4-PBA or TUDCA -- increase leptin sensitivity as much as 10-fold and resulted in significant weight loss in mice.
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The chaperones are the same two who guarded the door to the windowless room when I first arrived.
Boot Camp Todd Strasser 2010
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The chaperones are the same two who guarded the door to the windowless room when I first arrived.
Boot Camp Todd Strasser 2010
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Lots of people think its important to offer gyn patients chaperones, which is understandable.
Performing the Pelvic Exam aka TBTAM 2007
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The lack of the other cellular components present in these systems is not always a boon, however; sometimes proteins made using the PURE system don't fold properly, and additional proteins called chaperones need to be added to fix this problem.
Ars Technica Diana Gitig 2011
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Instead of traveling to the cell nucleus and turning on genes called chaperones, necessary for proper ER function, XBP-1 becomes stranded.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Instead of traveling to the cell nucleus and turning on genes called chaperones, necessary for proper ER function, XBP-1 becomes stranded.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Instead of traveling to the cell nucleus and turning on genes called chaperones, necessary for proper ER function,
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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