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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
For me, AI doom talk is fundamentally misleading and counterproductive—it’s speculative, self-serving, disproportionate and stripped of context.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 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
With that context in mind, Arsenal's draw on Thursday night was a significant achievement and increases their chances of qualifying for the knockout stages of the competition.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
These five factors help explain the limited success of experimental science in a medieval context.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Two other streaming series, “Crystal Lake” on Peacock and “Carrie” on Prime Video, place two of the horror genre’s most famous scary mothers in new contexts.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 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
"Our findings show that it might be worthwhile to examine targeted antibiotics from ethnographic contexts - or, as in this case, from prehistoric contexts - in greater depth," concludes Siemssen.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
She has recorded her meditative work “The Ballerina” in several duet contexts, but here she and Mr. Hurst trade interlocking figures while Mr. Blake’s shimmering percussion provides a stellar backdrop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
I hope other scholars and advocates will pick up where the book leaves off and develop the critique more fully or apply the themes sketched here to other groups and other contexts.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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