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It’s not your typical chart — the X axis is what’s called a signed-log scale, so you can see the huge values on the same axis as negative numbers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Family has always been central to Carter’s universe, the axis on which he discovered his path.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The Earth all but shifted on its axis following this, due to the breathtakingly bonkers discourse that followed the incident.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

As the main axis is there, I expect them to get very close to winning it again.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

They activate and silence genes, thereby defining the embryo’s axis from head to tail.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

These included the Oldowan tradition, associated with relatively simple stone tools, and the more sophisticated Acheulean tradition, known for carefully shaped tools such as hand axes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

But they were pushed back this week, and the government launched a counter-offensive into Tigrayan territory along three axes towards Mekelle, according to the Critical Threats Project, part of the American Enterprise Institute think tank.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

It is his Excalibur, his Andúril, the vaunted weapon only he can string and use to hit a bullseye through a row of twelve crossed axes.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

It bears heavy signs of use and was made by Fuhrer Frères of Gstaad, the same Swiss firm that supplied fifteen axes to the 1924 Everest expedition.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Within minutes, some twenty-five firemen arrived and, using axes and other tools, cut their way into the firehouse.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler