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"By focusing on how life spreads and interacts with environments, we can search for it without needing a perfect definition or a single definitive signal," said Harrison B. Smith.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
She asked ministers why specialist maths teachers were not routinely trained to recognise dyscalculia, and whether the government planned to establish a formal definition.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
“This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
Goldman’s definition of secular growth stocks are those S&P 500 firms, excluding financials, real estate, and utilities, that meet its “Rule of 10” sales growth criteria.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026
There is another definition in which resilience means the ability to recover easily from adversity.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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