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- verb Present participle of
metabolize . - adjective That serves to metabolize a specific class of compound
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Examples
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And once they make contact with the explosive material, they too will begin metabolizing and degrading it.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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And once they make contact with the explosive material, they too will begin metabolizing and degrading it.
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And that you may inherit different profiles of the so-called metabolizing genes differently in women than in men.
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Bion had an epistemophilic theory of the mind, in that he thought that our minds not only intrinsically seek truth, but grow as a result of "metabolizing" it.
W.R. Bion Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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He has no loyalty to the truth, nor to actively lead us towards metabolizing difficult issues so we can ourselves see difficult truth.
Carol Smaldino: George Washington vs. Barack Obama: A Question of Character Carol Smaldino 2011
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To survive until spring it must become anoxic, metabolizing only a limited store of glycogen rather than fat fat requires oxygen to metabolize in a state of severe metabolic depression.
The Beating Heart Beneath the Shell Jennie Erin Smith 2011
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When would it be time to discuss in conferences and out loud that our society is suffering from deficiencies in self-worth and fluency in metabolizing emotion in general -- both of which are part of a foundation of resiliency that can face a real examination of our actions and some of the mistakes we have made?
Carol Smaldino: When Do We Get to Diagnose Our Own Society? Carol Smaldino 2012
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Each bottle comes with a pamphlet promising: This all natural dietary supplement detoxes your system by metabolizing protein and eliminating bloat.
Archive 2009-06-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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When would it be time to discuss in conferences and out loud that our society is suffering from deficiencies in self-worth and fluency in metabolizing emotion in general -- both of which are part of a foundation of resiliency that can face a real examination of our actions and some of the mistakes we have made?
Carol Smaldino: When Do We Get to Diagnose Our Own Society? Carol Smaldino 2012
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We're developing a drug to decrease the muscles' resistance to metabolizing glucose.
Riva Greenberg: Changing Whole Towns to Reduce Type 2 Diabetes: Itamar Raz Riva Greenberg 2012
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