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are strains
noun
Treasure.
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* There are strains everywhere.
However, there are strains.
There are strains of Sophoclean tragedy in Peter Arnett's latest fall from grace.
There are strains of "Porgy and Bess and Samuel Barberr's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915".
Among the sounds of traffic, barking dogs and children playing are strains of music being made.
Yes, there are strains of the populist call of Ross Perot.
These are strains that are resistant to second-line antibiotics used to treat MDR-TB.
These are strains of mice in which a single gene has been deleted.
There are strains of the New Aesthetic and the slick, slippery visual memes beloved of post-internet art.
All are strains or representatives of what is sometimes called the tropical bass (or global bass or global ghettotech) movement.
We see many examples of wonderful, dedicated nursing staff who look after older patients marvellously, but clearly there are strains within our system.
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