A new method of choosing suitable models for human disease based on overlapping genes has made some unexpected suggestions, such as looking to the small flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana to better understand mental retardation.

The unexpected suggestion seemed to bring her back to reality.

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That openness yields some unexpected suggestions.

He mused on Captain Taut's pressing and unexpected suggestion that he might find refuge on board if there were need.

This unexpected suggestion was not to the engineer's liking.

The unexpected suggestion touched off a flurry of speculation and fingerpointing, and Singapore-Malaysia relations have been on edge ever since.

Out of the longer silence while they all digested this fiat and readjusted to a suggestion so unexpected, the earl said with evident satisfaction, indeed, to Cadfael's ears bordering on glee: "Agreed!

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The surprise he had experienced at Allanon's unexpected suggestion turned quickly to curiosity.