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The damage from Wendy’s infection meant she would never have been able to hunt or scavenge again and would instead require a soft food diet for the rest of her life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
An Anthropic researcher who specializes in training new AI models quit over fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems they won’t be able to control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Those patients are more likely to be able to pay not only for the initial test, but also for the specialists, repeat imaging, and biopsies that may follow.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
In the wake of victory, the RFU was able to take its time and tie him down to another four years.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
And now everything would be weird between us, and maybe we wouldn’t even be able to stay best friends anymore, which is exactly what I’d wanted to avoid.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Rothbard blamed Smith’s celebrity for blotting out the better work of abler minds, but Turgot had kept his genius mainly to himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
Four years later disease laid Franklin Roosevelt low and made him into a different and abler man.
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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