Petri Dish

So it goes in the petri-dish of adolescent high school politics and unbalanced power relationships. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Oh, yeah, as if it's not you and your language-obsessed petri-dish of our home." ❋ Maggie Jochild (2007)

The show specializes in the "um" s, "like" s and "whatever" s of teen politics, observed at a petri-dish level. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Frankly John Q. Whitesheets–I would be more ‘afeared’ of what you have growing in that petri-dish of a half empty brain socket. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The researchers 'petri-dish experiments show that orienting artificial joint material nanotubes in the same direction made bone cells attach better to the material. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Although it still has much potential - since there are many more developmental stages to go through, including the acquisition of a cerebral cortex - it is actual in a way that the petri-dish dwellers are not. ❋ Unknown (2005)

New words are memorised on a daily basis (forming the book's chapter headings, including autarky, decollation, fastigium and quidnunc), people are slotted into different categories like so many enzymes in a petri-dish. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At the age of ten, Henry James Hermin, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in hopes of finding his biological father. ❋ Unknown (2010)