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Discovery
"Discovery" in a Sentence (19 examples)
Most scientific breakthroughs are nothing else than the discovery of the obvious.
Scientists regard the discovery as important.
As scientists keep insisting, there is neither good nor bad in any scientific discovery.
To whom do we owe the discovery of penicillin?
Chance led to the discovery of the new island.
That discovery was quite accidental.
The discovery will have a momentous effect on the treatment of cancer.
How is the discovery related to the progress of science?
We can apply the discovery to various uses.
I was surprised at the discovery.
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This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.
Indeed, this discovery of meaning in symbols may be the most astounding intellectual feat that any human being ever performs—and most humans perform it before they are seven years old!
The purpose of the voyage was discovery.
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The letters patents of king Henry the ſeuenth granted vnto Iohn Cabot and his three ſonnes, Lewis, Sebastian, and Sancius, for the discouerie of new and vnknowen lands.
Don Huberto actually fell in love with his kinswoman, and had presumption enough to declare his passion […] The lady being a woman of discretion, instead of making a discovery, which might have been attended with melancholy consequences, reprimanded her relation with gentleness […]
The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery.
The defense argued that the plaintiff's discovery was inadequate.
1700: "If I play f4, he can check me with ...Qd4, but then he has to move his Queen because he can easily lose it to a Bishop discovery on b5. He could also check me on c5 when his Queen might be safer. I could just move out of the way, though, and continue my attack."
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