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For non-legal laymen, having possession of the other side's legal work is considered exceptionally bad form, akin to a doctor groping a patient.

In part, that was to be more entertaining, Ms. McGregor said, but a larger reason was the austere limit of 140 characters per message imposed by Twitter, which turns tweets into a literary form akin to haiku.

In this dense but rewarding book, Chandra, a novelist, blends memoir, social criticism, and the study of linguistics to consider the claim, put forward by some computer programmers, that writing code is an art form akin to writing fiction.

The ultrathin filaments have long fascinated scientists, but until now they have been maddeningly difficult to work with, because they tend to clump together in a messy interwoven form akin to steel wool.

This month, two Democratic senators, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois and Jack Reed of Rhode Island, urged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to adopt a more consumer-friendly disclosure form, akin to the nutrition label on food packaging, for all the fees attached to a checking account.

The dataset not only resembles a pharmaceutical database but also enables the extraction of actives in a form akin to that of a typical virtual screening experiment.

The audience were guided into a dark black tent buried deep in the Grand Palais and, 27 minutes after the appointed start time, darkness turned to pitch black and the flat black panels of the roof tilted on their hinges to form a shape akin to a church; speakers descended, and the music began to throb.

Longer exposure to ammonia and other nitrogenous compounds in natural larval habitats might therefore select for a differential tolerance pattern between the M and S forms akin to that observed in our bioassays in response to short-term exposure to ammonia alone.

Processed with olive oil and a couple of garlic cloves, the pimentón and rye bread combined to form something akin to vegan chorizo: dark, smoky and fatty.

These cells will, in turn, form something akin to a limb bud, the nascent limb that first protrudes from the flanks of a developing embryo.

Humic acids are amphiphilic species whose behavior in aqueous solution suggests that they form pseudomicelles aggregates akin to the micelles familiar from synthetic surfactant chemistry.