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  • verb Present participle of produce.

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  • Towards the end of the 1920's and the beginning of the 1930's, several American research groups announced that they had been successful in producing from the cortex a more or less pure extract, which when injected proved to prolong the life of animals from which the adrenals had been removed, and also had a favourable effect on patients suffering from Addison's disease.

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • The term producing cause is not defined by the statute.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • The term producing cause is not defined by the statute.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • In the 2nd way, one can have a compounded and divided sense when a term producing merely confused supposition in a common term immediately following it is used.

    William Heytesbury Longeway, John 2007

  • {17} M. Compte combined Huygens's theorems for the measure of centrifugal force with the law of gravitation, and thus formed a simple fundamental equation between the duration of the rotation of what he calls the producing star, and the distance of the star produced.

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

  • Nor will anti-Americanism disappear even if the U.S. is seen as having played a major role in producing such an outcome.

    Wonk Room » Keep Your Friends Close, And Dennis Ross Closer 2009

  • Patents used in producing cellulosic ethanol: 63% held by foreign corporations, 15% domestic, 8% US universities.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • In the last election cycle, there was much more participation in producing money for governance.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • It means "the integration of the parts" both to complete and enhance the experience and to continue the process of re-creating the work which is the reader's part of the job in producing an aesthetic experience.

    John Dewey's *Art as Experience* 2010

  • Such beetles are also used by regular taxidermists in producing some animal mounts.

    Bare Bones Taxidermy 2009

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