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“Something we may not be able to deter. Before this day is done, we shall be faced with an unthinkable decision.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
But it accepted people would still be able to access the forum by using a VPN, which hides your location online.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
That three missiles were able to slip through U.S. air defenses points to the challenges in protecting troops against Iranian missile and drone attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Majumdar said the deal marks an “important commercial endorsement” for AMD, as it shows the company is able to offer an “integrated AI-infrastructure platform rather than competing with Nvidia solely at the individual-chip level.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Still, there was one thing he knew he’d never be able to master, because he wasn’t a wolf.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Jimmy Carter was one of the abler residents, in his mid-seventies—too able for tracing letters.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
This leaves the real study of real economics, in the real world, wide open for abler minds.
From Forbes ● Apr. 17, 2015
With the pace of a jack rabbit it bounds from song to dance to comedy to song, offers too short glimpses of some of Hollywood's abler and less familiar talent.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He is widely considered abler, more vigorous and more cultivated than his elder brother.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Getting Lemoncello to cancel these so-called Olympic Games? Couldn’t have done it in an abler manner myself.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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Cox proved to be Young’s ablest intelligence gatherer, even if the occasional bribes she endorsed put her agents at needless risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s chief Supreme Court lawyer, is widely considered one of the ablest high-court advocates.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, he described Ms Sturgeon as being "one of the ablest communicators in politics".
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2023
In September 1948, a State Department report portrayed Ho as "the strongest and perhaps the ablest figure in Indochina," and said that "any suggested solution which excludes him is an expedient of uncertain outcome."
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2022
One of these young men was Cyril Ramaphosa, the general secretary of the National Union of Mine Workers and one of the ablest of the new generation of leadership.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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