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As a child, he came across a page in an encyclopedia featuring Neil Armstrong and the picture of an astronaut on the Moon from the 1969 Apollo mission.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
The decision arrives not a moment too soon for the online encyclopedia, which has seen a deluge of hallucination-prone A.I.-written articles since ChatGPT’s launch.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026
“I found the encyclopedia at the Underground,” he explains, of the DuBois work that became central to “Blknws.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
He left behind a seminal 37-volume encyclopedia, the “Natural History,” and the surviving letters of his nephew paint a colorful portrait of a workaholic who rarely slept.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: “The legs of the larvae have degenerated, and the adults do not fly.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.