decade
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Wade was found guilty of commercial burglary and auto theft over a decade ago after he stole Fieri’s Lamborghini from a British Motors in San Francisco, where the car was being repaired.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
AI has increasingly become part of everyday life over the past decade.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Another Anthropic employee, who did not resign, stated publicly that "we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans", and that he thought the chances were greater than "10 percent within the next decade".
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
But, oh, how easy the curse’s persistence makes it to retread all those familiar plot beats, the same ones that have been removed from their context and posted to death for the last decade.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
In the decade following the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens, scientists accurately forecasted fourteen subsequent eruptions to within days or weeks.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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Science-fiction writers had worked out decades ago that once super computers could think for themselves, they might no longer need us — and might no longer be our friends.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
"We need frameworks, and this clearly lies, in terms of responsibility, in the hands of governments," Caine added, noting that Thales had been working on AI research for decades.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
It would be decades before other scholars caught up to her conceptions of the soul in the Viking Age, or the intricacies of funerary ritual as preparation for a future life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now carried out the first systematic investigation of these sequences of storms using decades of weather observations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Hadn’t all the intelligent animals been put to death in the Black Forest decades ago?
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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