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[ak-tiv] / ˈæk tɪv /




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During one particularly active stretch last weekend, one post showed Trump riding horseback beside George Washington, next to a race car, with the White House in the background.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Traditional remedies may contain biologically active compounds that can inspire new treatments when they are studied with modern methods.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

There’s a catch, says Schuna: The more active your hands are, the more faulty the sensor readings can be.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

“We don’t have active boots on the ground right now, but we were in a helicopter on Wednesday and have future plans to go with more ground crews.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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