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More complex compositions - with ultrafast trills and combinations that contain lots of information - are more common in temperate forests, where birds tend to communicate at closer range.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Still, Lagarde has said the central bank likely won’t need to act as forcefully to contain inflation as it did during the 2022 energy crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
This time around, authorities are scrambling to contain potential disruptions before they become systematic.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
In other words, the Universe can contain more entropy overall while entropy becomes more widely distributed across expanding space.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Penelope could barely contain her excitement—was it possible that the Incorrigibles’ mother was living someplace nearby?
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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Coffee is the main source of caffeine in most studies, but coffee contains many other substances that could influence health.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
The Gallagher brothers' 1995 album, which contains hits like Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger, is third on the all-time best-sellers list, which has been published by the Official Charts Company.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Title III of Helms-Burton contains a 1996 cutoff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
It contains testing kits for tuberculosis, cooled storage for vaccines, and ultrasound for pregnant women.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
The Kodály Song Web contains hundreds of American and other folk songs from around the world, as well as musical information on every song to help teachers learn and teach them.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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And by every honest account of what those documents actually contained, he proved none of it.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
A spokesperson for Kalshi declined to comment beyond what’s contained in the filings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
“You can hear that these buildings carry the echoes of the lives they contained because of the frescoes, the mosaics, the furniture. You feel 2,000 years compress and collapse. It’s like magic.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Instead, the sprinkler system activates and floods the entire house, turning a contained problem into widespread damage.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
He sat up, and saw that a tray was on his bedside table with some sort of meal contained under a silver dome.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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With this method, they have built a library containing more than 150 different compounds.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
To have a squad containing not one but two Golden Boot contenders is no mean feat in a World Cup.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
On the small vessel’s deck, a pair of traps containing skittering crustaceans had just been heaved aboard from 25 feet below the water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Archaeologists have uncovered crystals at numerous sites containing Homo remains, suggesting that early human relatives deliberately collected these unusual stones as far back as 780,000 years ago.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
No longer was the earth comfortably ensconced in the center of the universe; there was no shell containing the cosmos.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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