draft
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"I have heard stories of some writers using AI prompts to do a first draft which I find shocking because I think... What are you paid for otherwise? What are you there to do?"
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
White, a second-round draft pick of the New England Patriots in 2023, has played in all five games this season for the unbeaten 49ers, registering three sacks and nine tackles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
A draft scorecard published in July painted a mixed picture of progress.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
When the NFL draft was in Pittsburgh this year, you got to hold the Immaculate Reception football for the first time in 53 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
They wanted to know why he hadn't registered for the draft.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
The bill has been through several drafts and has been scrutinised by several Parliamentary committees and the House of Lords, which submitted 1,200 amendments.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Go do this 10-minute play workshop, then do 90 drafts of it, and then we’ll do a reading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Picked near the top of their respective drafts, both men crafted passable but underwhelming careers in the league.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
It’s the government itself that controls when it releases drafts and final versions of all these rules and regulations.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
In the summertime, this wasn’t too bad, but in the winter, freezing cold drafts blew across the floor all night long, and it was awful.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
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The slowdown, however, is not enough to keep the world from missing a pledge to end deforestation by 2030, according to the report, which was drafted by a coalition of research groups and non-governmental organisations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
With over 100 cats at its stores, company leadership at the Westminster, Mass., headquarters drafted a playbook for store cats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
“That’s your dream, of being drafted or being signed, is to have an opportunity like this. They’ve done an incredible job so far … Love what I’m seeing from them so far.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
The party was at a paintball venue, so the assistant drafted and sent a text to each parent with a release form to sign.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Sentries were drafted into rotating shifts to watch the front and rear of the house.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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Many would-be landlords cringe at the legal costs of buying a property and drafting a lease.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
In the essay Robinson said his credentials include overseeing the writing of safety reports on 12 advanced model product launches and leading the drafting of OpenAI's Preparedness Framework.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Overseeing such a diverse mix is obviously too big a job for one person so Ellison added yet another flavor by drafting Ynon Kreiz as co-chief executive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Since they started drafting the NPS, there has been a change of prime minister, and a change of political temperature on this issue.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
But he was correct about the others: not even Oppenheimer had read the actual text before drafting the message to which Lawrence and Fermi had blindly signed their names.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 3
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