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proh tuh

  • s  indicating the first or earliest or original
    `proto' is a combining form in a word like `protolanguage' that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages

  • In the 18th century, proto-economist Adam Smith pointed to the transformative effect of the division of labor.
  • Proto-chlorophyll accumulates in certain cells of leaves called chloroplasts where it comes in contact with carbon dioxide in the air.
  • PTI: Kitty was sort of a proto-Buffy, right? JW: Kitty was a huge proto-Buffy.
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  • Proto Labs, Inc. Will Present at the William Blair & Company 33rd Annual Growth Stock Conference
    Proto Labs, Inc. , a leading online and technology-enabled quick-turn manufacturer, today announced that it will be presenting at the William Blair and Company 33rd Annual Growth Stock Conference, June 12 at 2 p.m.
    June 10, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
  • ‘The Thrill of the Ideal: Richard Tuttle: The Reinhart Project’
    The artist Richard Tuttle selected proto-Romantic landscape etchings by Johann Christian Reinhart and made frames for them for a show at Pocket Utopia.
    June 6, 2013 - New York Times
  • “Dust Trap” Solves Mystery of Planet Formation
    It’s always sobering to remember how much we still don’t know about the universe. Despite finding hundreds of exoplanetary systems and numerous stars surrounded by proto-planetary disks of gas and dust, it’s still not clear how the latter become the former. But observations by the recently-opened Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have shed light on this question by finding a ...
    June 6, 2013 - Discover

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