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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a nub" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small, protruding part or a remnant of something, often in a casual or informal context.
Example: "After cutting the string, all that was left was a nub that was too short to tie."
Alternatives: "a stub" or "a remnant".
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Shift knobs had been rubbed down to a nub.
Her right ear is now only a nub.
Freud would have been clucked over and diagnosed down to a nub here.
A nub of creamy yellow gets a Rembrandt glint on the cup.
Szpakowski's cigarette had burned down to a nub and smoke was streaming into his eyes.
He picked up a nub of chalk and began to write.
In navy parlance he was a NUB – a Non-Useful Body.
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Our coexpression studies using the Dpn and Ase markers revealed that nub-46 (Fig. 8a', a"), nub-49b (Fig. 8b', b"), and pdm2-37a (Fig. 8d', d") drove expression in type I and type II NBs.
We induced GFP expression in the wing pouch using a nub-GAL4 driver and performed ChIP assays followed by quantitative PCR (qPCR) in sorted cells (Fig 1D and Supplementary Fig S1E).
A) nub-8 regulates expression in a subset of anterior and posterior ventral nerve cord (VNC) neurons B) nub-9 drives expression mostly in a subset of lateral VNC neurons.
In addition, there is a nub-type human zone that is located in the border region between human and mouse territories and also is surrounded by white lattice points.
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