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Researchers found that astrocytes in this area play a direct role in how the brain learns what to fear, retrieves those memories, and importantly, learns when those fears are no longer relevant.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026
“It’s such an amazing thing that we have another opportunity to play together,” said Dugalic.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
But we want to play exciting football and in some phases of the game we played enjoyable football.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
With match play, players compete to win individual holes, so if you land in an unraked bunker, and need three strokes to get out of it, you simply lose that hole.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
“You won. Now we have to wait to see how the rest of those bullet points play out.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
