Definition of "chaperones" [chaperones]

• Plural form of chaperone. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chaperone. (verb)

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• "The purpose of chaperones is to keep your ear to the ground and sniff out issues."
• "Flowers_; and with a dozen "chaperones" -- whom I always suspected of taking in washing during the winter months, -- lined up as closely as was possible to the door, as if in preparation for the hotel's catching fire any moment, to give us pessimistic observal."
• "The study, published in Cell Metabolism, found two "chaperones" -- 4-PBA or TUDCA -- increase leptin sensitivity as much as 10-fold and resulted in significant weight loss in mice."