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These adjustments have been part of the tax code for decades, protecting households from stumbling too easily into higher tax rates.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
“With the Pierre team, we wish to set the standard for modern software development: from the first branch an agent creates to that magic moment when code is deployed to the world,” OpenAI said Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
He said he was "delighted" that the expert team at Amgueddfa Cymru and Cardiff University cracked the padlock code after he spent years trying to solve the mystery himself.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Without nucleobases, the genetic code that allows organisms to grow, reproduce and evolve would not exist.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
We exchanged code names and I handed the note over.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Skeptics, including Lewis, say there is already enough demand for new housing and that additional changes, such as to building codes or zoning, are needed to make it easier and less expensive to build.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
"Avoid links in unsolicited messages, and never give anyone your password, verification codes or wallet recovery phrase."
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Others were scanning QR codes and filling out forms.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
The Postal Service rolled out the reductions anyway, extending the changes to almost 20,000 ZIP codes to date.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
She did her best to keep pace mentally when Kat tried to explain complex theories on patterns and codes using a Scrabble game.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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The wait times are color coded as follows:
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Fire is usually coded as aggression, danger and toughness.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Four American musicians visiting the Soviet Union in 1985 packed what appeared to be sheet music but was in fact coded data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
If this had been coded correctly, a "timelier" ambulance response would "likely" have been sent.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
It stood out from the other planets in the area because it wasn’t coded to look real.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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“If you look at what’s really changed this year, Q1 was pretty rough, Q2 was pretty rough—it really looked in many ways, like coding, we weren’t really even in the conversation,” said Brockman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Last month brought news of exploitable bugs in PHP, the coding language of most websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Koenig also expects Datadog to benefit from an expansion of its AI-focused customer base and from a coding boom driven by agentic AI.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
They had been working towards the same goal, and kept their drafts in OpenAI's coding tool, Codex.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Purple was used by Japanese diplomats, which meant it carried the very highest-grade secrets.To protect those secrets, Japan's coding chiefs had outdone themselves.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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