shaping

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Appeared in the March 28, 2026, print edition as 'The Decadelong Feud Shaping the Future of AI'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Shaping up the crowd during the endless trailers, I spotted 10 other people with notebooks — no doubt fellow journalists and critics, ready to do their jobs.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

Shaping Demogorgon, detail by detail, was like "making a clay sculpture," he said.

From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026

Shaping its internal structure requires extremely high temperatures, which is why steel production consumes so much energy.

From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026

Yet no ill portents or encounters followed on his working even of the Great Spells of Making and Shaping, which are most perilous.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin