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[gawnt] / gɔnt /


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There’s a healthy place for AI in business communications, Gaunt says: crisis communicators can use it as a “devil’s advocate” when evaluating approaches or stress-testing strategies.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Back in Truro, Mr Gaunt agrees shoplifting is a sign of much wider problems: "I feel desperate, I feel like giving up. It's about so much more than a £20 teddy, it's a broken society."

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2024

Gaunt men and “children, big-eyed and thin,” walked up and clutched the rabbi’s raincoat.

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2024

“Getting ghosted or zombied typically results in sadness, anger and oftentimes actual depression,” said Ms. Gaunt, author of the recent book “Prince Charming is Dead … or in Rehab.”

From Washington Times • May 28, 2023

“Yes, that was Tom Riddle senior, the handsome Muggle who used to go riding past the Gaunt cottage and for whom Merope Gaunt cherished a secret, burning passion.”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling




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