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A benefit to the approval of an mRNA flu shot is that, in future seasons where a new strain suddenly emerges, vaccine manufacturers will be able to more quickly release new shots to combat it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
But since that's not happening, it means there's a "mechanism" by which the corona is able to maintain its inexplicably high temperature, he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Giving those families a tax break they may not be able to use doesn’t help anyone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
BBC Verify has not been able to independently confirm this.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The more rare and expensive a watch, the less he was able to think of it in terms of money.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
A Department of Education report found that abler children are indeed being kept back because of the "boredom, disenchantment and indiscipline" of mixed-ability comprehensive classes.
From Time Magazine Archive
“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
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
Antmoos held off; so did Eurymakhos, suitors in chief, by far the ablest there.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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