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agent

[ey-juhnt] / ˈeɪ dʒənt /


NOUN
power, instrument for achievement
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STRONG


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Jorge had been the Argentina forward's agent since he was 14 and watched him become one of the sport's greatest ever players.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Tencent has also been among the Chinese tech giants racing to take advantage of a surge in interest in the country in OpenClaw -- an AI agent platform created by an Austrian programmer.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

LISBON—The agent manning the passport control line warned me not to be fooled by the mercifully short line that greeted me upon arrival at Portugal’s Lisbon International Airport on the last Friday in July.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Immediately after our application for our new apartment was approved, the listing agent who showed us the unit contacted me from a Spectrum email address pitching wifi packages.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

Stanton and others were certain Booth was merely an agent of a Confederate conspiracy.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

Two months later, an armed man was arrested in Florida after US Secret Service agents spotted him hiding in the trees near where Trump was playing golf.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

In a blog post, SpaceX said the new model was designed with a focus on long-running AI agents and complex tasks.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

OTel, an open model that AT&T customized using telecom-specific data, supports AI agents that can detect the root cause of network issues, according to Markus.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

He predicted that company sizes may shrink during this transition from industrial giants to tech companies, as small teams of people powered by personal AI agents will be able to run companies at significant scale.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

I think about our frozen credit cards, the scary FBI agents, and the house on Astor Street that Dad says we’ll never see again.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller




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