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- noun Any agent that causes
proliferation
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Examples
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The debate that should take place now is: Can we -- can the world live in a proliferated world, especially when the proliferator is a country that has so severely challenged the environment in which it lives?
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Dr. Pasinetti and colleagues found that a gene known as proliferator-activated receptor coactivator 1 - (PGC-1), a key regulator of glucose content currently investigated as a potential therapeutic target for type-2 diabetes, is also decreased in Alzheimer 'disease dementia cases.
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In the new study, the research team has found that a gene known as proliferator-activated receptor coactivator 1 - (PGC-1), a key regulator of glucose content, a potential therapeutic target for type-2 diabetes, is also decreased in Alzheimer 'disease dementia cases.
Medindia Health News 2009
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Dr. Pasinetti and colleagues found that a gene known as proliferator-activated receptor coactivator 1 - (PGC-1), a key regulator of glucose content currently investigated as a potential therapeutic target for type-2 diabetes, is also decreased in Alzheimer 'disease dementia cases.
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Treasury Department declared Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a "proliferator" of weapons of mass destruction.
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The Treasury, in designating the carrier as a "proliferator," said the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and 18 of its affiliated entities were secretly "providing logistical services" to Iran's military, falsifying shipping documents and using deceptive terms to describe shipments in order to hide their activities from foreign maritime officials.
U.S. Accuses 2008
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Treasury Department has designated as a proliferator for what it says is the bank's role in abetting Iran's nuclear activities and earlier this month barred from accessing the American market.
Iran's European Helpers Mark Dubowitz 2010
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Amin was a young member of the special counterproliferation team at customs and he was eager to pursue his investigation of the biggest proliferator in history.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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Amin was a young member of the special counterproliferation team at customs and he was eager to pursue his investigation of the biggest proliferator in history.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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As our readers apparently know better than the folks who run the U.N., North Korea is the world's foremost weapons proliferator.
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