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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actually a target of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that someone or something is the intended focus or objective of an action, often in contexts involving criticism, attack, or investigation.
Example: "The report revealed that the organization was actually a target of cyber attacks from various hackers."
Alternatives: "specifically aimed at" or "directly targeted by".
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So, while it's unclear if Angry Birds is actually a target of CSE and GCHQ's BADASS program, the advertising tracking data within mobile apps are being exploited by these agencies to identify their targets' behaviour online.
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We actually have a target of $50 for that stock.
So could Ambassador Bolton actually be a target of Pat Fitzgerald's investigation?
There is substantial evidence that other conditions (i.e., obesity, hyperglycemia, and hyperinsulinemia) play a fundamental role in cancer development, progression, and prognosis [ 45], and these pathways are actually considered a target of new therapeutic strategies.
Neither of these genes might actually be a target of hsa-miR-641; there may also exist stronger regulating elements that control their expression, or the primary mode of silencing in that specific situation may be through translational repression.
Wnt signaling is instrumental in intestinal homeostasis, as indicated by the essential role of Wnt3, R-spondin, and downstream β-Catenin/TCF transcription regulators in stem cell maintenance, and Lgr5 is actually a target gene of Wnt signaling (Korinek et al., 1998; Kim et al., 2005; Sato et al., 2011).
"Finding c-Myc as a target of BPA actually is a very important step for us to know how to prevent an adverse effect of BPA on human health".
Beverly Hills, long a target of regulators' scorn, actually increased its water savings in August by about two percentage points compared with the same month in 2015.
So we've designed the e‑book to run for actually, we have a target of close to 24 hours, but we can achieve probably half of that using our current power management scheme.
In this context, thermal selection is usually invoked as a causal factor for the frequently reported geographic clines of body size in Drosophila [7], [8], [11] however whether thermal selective pressure exerts a direct influence on LDT (reversed Bergman rule) or, actually, the target of selection is adult body size itself (Bergman rule) remains unclear.
Moreover, the LTRE motif CCGAC present in one of the rice clusters is overlapping with the DRE motif RCCGAC, which is actually the target of the CBF/DREB factors (Stockinger et al., 1997).
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