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austere

[aw-steer] / ɔˈstɪər /




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The term "artificial intelligence" was born in 1956 at an austere summer workshop at Dartmouth College.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

In an austere look at the price of lies, Ms. Hüller plays a 17th-century European woman who first poses as a male soldier and then claims the inheritance of a dead man.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

There sits the studio, an austere black cube jutting into the countryside, guarded by a giant sculpture of a gorilla.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Chief among the "fossils", in the eyes of some of the soldiers who responded to our requests, is Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the austere 60-year-old commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The contrast of this laughing, luxuriant beauty with the clear-cut, austere grandeur all around arrests the attention sharply.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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