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To check the results, the team also modeled the same process using a classical computer.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
It said there were now websites and phone apps, external drivers could use to check for the latest pump prices and where to find cheaper fuel.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Shares of Apple were up less than 1% on Friday, at last check.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Inside the nearly 100-year-old theater, Alejandra was onstage for a sound check.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
The smell washed over me a moment later, and I had to swallow hard to get my gag reflex in check.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
The new system of voter checks is based on the 40-year-old Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, that was created by Congress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The bank has since returned our last two Social Security checks to the Social Security Administration, leaving us with no income to buy food or make our mortgage payments.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
It will not investigate how Apple operates its age checks.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The qubit repeatedly checks the mechanical resonator during its two milliseconds of vibration, determining whether the phonon is in an energy state of 1 or 0.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
They sifted through all available records on him, from recent FBI files to security checks that had been done over the years.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Eli is making a party mix that contains pretzels and chex.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
How many cups of pretzels and how many cups of chex does he need to make 12 cups of party mix?
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
For each cup of pretzels, he uses three cups of chex.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
It said each home is checked by its teams and independent inspections take place and, two to three weeks after customers move in, the build team meets to discuss and agree any snagging work.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
The agent who had checked my biography and I started talking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The onetime Calvin Klein model had checked into the facility just hours before, around 10 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Yet one in eight people surveyed by the UK tax authority have never checked how much money they are forecast to receive.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
“I checked, and my cousins told me the same thing.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
"Constant checking, tracking or intervening may soothe the parent in the short term, but it can inadvertently communicate to the young adult: 'I am not sure you can cope without me.'"
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
If agents are always prowling for reservations, human spontaneity will lose, and fewer people who have the good fortune of checking for a competitive seating at the right moment will get it.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
To receive the funds from our last checking account, we had to wait 15 days for a cashier’s check to arrive by mail.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Note: While checking on the health of your trees, be a good steward of the planet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
I was checking the graze on my elbow when a fluffy nose appeared and nuzzled against my leg.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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