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Broadcom’s dominance in developing TPUs has become a topic on Wall Street amid reports that Google has worked with Taiwan-based MediaTek to co-develop future generations of the chips.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
The showdown between the first family of the Lakers comes at a time when family ownership is increasingly rare in high-level professional sports, as franchises become astronomically valuable—thanks in part to visionaries like Jerry Buss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
With high pressure giving way to low pressure for the rest of this week, rain is expected to become much more widespread over the next few days, although rainfall totals will be very uneven.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
By 2022, breast cancer incidence among Asian American women under 50 had become comparable to the rate among white women of the same age group.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
His beloved swimming hole had become a bit of a deathtrap: twice as deep and roaring by at a thunderous speed.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Instead of simply eating more pollen to compensate for missing nutrients, bees may reduce their intake when another nutrient becomes excessive.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
The warehouse club becomes the latest consumer brand to offer health insurance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Evo, he said, “comes at a much higher price point, which becomes challenging for families and students.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The new arrival, who is not a Royal Highness, becomes 15th in line to the throne, moving ahead of her great-uncle, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Edward.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The longer we stand there, the more people join and the louder the crowd becomes.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Jenkins says, after that, “We hung out a lot and laughed and talked … I mean, we became friends in seven episodes. In the miniseries and in life, we became friends.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
In the interwar period, Scarborough and Whitby became world-famous destinations for game fishing because of the size of the tuna - nicknamed "tunny".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Early this year, it became clear to investors that companies with a focus on the legal profession were highly vulnerable to an incursion by frontier AI developers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The improvement became even greater with longer overhangs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
When he became ill, he sold many acres of good farmland to buy more of his favorite books.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
"It's not fair to the families who are Palestinian, who own their homes, who have a right to raise their families without fear," said Huckabee, who before becoming ambassador had rejected the term Palestinian.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
They risk becoming like New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whom Florida’s Chamber of Commerce crowned “Florida’s Economic Developer of the Year” for inducing New York City wealth to move south.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
For Crosby Roamann, a Napa Valley winery, Canada was becoming an increasingly important export market before the trade battles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The announcement comes with an additional £102m in new funding, taking Burnham's total commitment to tackling rough sleeping to £442m since becoming prime minister.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
But walking side by side behind him now, Mutti and I could see that his wheezing was becoming worse all the time.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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