How to Use ciliate in a Sentence
ciliate
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Similar events elsewhere have involved parasitic ciliates in the genus ‘Philaster’.
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Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Dec. 2025
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After a final sequence of emergences and contractions, the ciliate eventually got fed up, pulled up stakes and swam away, presumably looking for a less noxious place to settle down.
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Claire L. Evans,
Quanta Magazine,
30 July 2025
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The team found that rumen ciliates with more of the hydrogen-producing structures helped generate more methane than microbes with fewer hydrogenobodies did.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 2026
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Once inside, prey organisms — including bacteria, protozoans like ciliates and amoebae and even tiny soil mites — are subjected to conditions with very low oxygen.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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In a paper published on Thursday in Science, researchers describe how hydrogenobodies in rumen ciliates in the guts of dairy cows remove oxygen and produce hydrogen—which other microbes then use to make methane.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 2026
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