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However, neither of these proposed approaches has been tested in this context for preventing cognitive decline, and researchers do not yet know whether changing brain activity would alter the course of Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
Putting it in an historical context, outsized capital-spending booms like Japan’s in the mid ’90s or the wider Asia’s in the late ’90s “rarely generate proportionate investment returns.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
And just looking at him as an underdog in the context of this story and of his own life, you can’t help but admire all the things that he persevered through.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
“Maybe” in this context acts as a synonym for possibility, Jolly said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Ursus didn’t bother to reply, but took Kepler’s praise out of context and published it as a kind of endorsement of some of his own work—which, as it happens, was critical of Tycho.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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“It’s rarely actually useful to diagnose anyone because we’re so complex, and people behave in such different ways in different contexts and so much is systemic.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
The sheer joy of watching Stewart’s comic turns in shows like “Extras” or hearing his voice in ludicrous contexts was magnified by the majesty he lent to his dramatic work.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
"Too much double-stranded RNA or mRNA that cannot be degraded effectively may contribute to disease processes in some contexts."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
Democracies do this as a matter of course, and we can, too, even if we modify these lessons, and learn from their shortcomings, for our own particular contexts.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
Most mathematicians—Galileo, Pascal, Descartes, Newton—were familiar with the word’s use in technical astronomy, and tended to avoid it in other contexts.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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