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[gawnt] / gɔnt /


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“The sentence construction ‘it’s not X, it’s Y’ is one of the biggest tells in AI,” Jeff Gaunt, founder of Gaunt Strategies, told Shaina.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

They are joined in the elite race by Rachel Hodgkinson and Helen Gaunt, and debutants Mhairi Maclennan and Lucy Reid.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2024

Gaunt and weakened by cancer at 42, his father reached for the buttons on Kerr’s shirt, fiddled with them and said something about getting ready to catch the plane to their cabin in the woods.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2024

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

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2024

Gaunt, intense, and excitable, with Rasputin’s piercing eyes and a beard that rivaled Darwin's, de Vries already looked like a younger version of his idol.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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