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Perrigo Chief Executive Patrick Lockwood-Taylor resigned after the board found his personal conduct violated company code.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
They came with playful code names like “Fort Spunky” and “Project Panther,” masking the names of the tech companies that would operate them.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026
Limbo doesn’t have a ZIP code, but it’s an awfully unsettling place to live.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
Already, Anthropic's popular chatbot Claude is operating on code of which 80% the system wrote itself.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
“Well, I’ll be straightforward, Lizzie. Working as a code clerk at the embassy and all, I’ve wondered if your mum might have been recruited into something. But Jakob, a spy? What a bunch of twaddle.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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