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First: One statement from a survivor should never be treated as the final or definitive account of a traumatic event.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
In a Friday post on X, Pope Leo took a definitive stance separating human capabilities from those of AI.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The Attorney General's Office stated in a press release that, given Mariaca's "definitive absence," the next most senior public prosecutor, Luis Montano Morales, would replace him on an interim basis.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
A spokesman for Goldman, Tony Fratto, said the board regularly discusses succession, but that there is no definitive timeline for it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
This was important in the long term, because in the nineteenth century it would provide a definitive test of whether light does travel as a wave or whether it travels as a stream of particles.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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