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agent

[ey-juhnt] / ˈeɪ dʒənt /


NOUN
power, instrument for achievement
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STRONG


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Varela claims that the United customer service agent had a bad attitude from the beginning and informed him that she did not care whether his family was able to board their flight.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Luria explained that users can “choose models, choose whether to look at internal data and choose which agent to use, or allow Copilot to route the prompt in the most efficient and appropriate manner.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Chinese startup Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model that it says has set a new benchmark for performance, beating OpenAI’s GPT 5.5 and Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 in coding and agent benchmarks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

"A new era of AI agent smartphones begins," Nubia said, sharing images of the handsets online.

From Barron's Jul. 19, 2026

Unlike the other two, though, they’d managed to not only find their agent, but also to catch the Butterfly.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

"Offensive agents are unconstrained, while the best defensive tools are locked behind guardrails that cannot understand context."

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

He presents himself not as a political press secretary but as the experienced operator who understands what federal agents need and how immigration enforcement must work.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

Sources familiar with the operation but not authorized to speak publicly said U.S. federal agents had been in contact with Guzmán López, and were pressuring him to surrender.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Three dozen new people, many of them marketing professionals, have registered as foreign agents for Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Dad and Aunt Melissa are deep in conversation with the agents, while Andre, Lisa-Marie Anne, Emma, and Lily are perched on a nearby picnic table.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller




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