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Ellie-Mae said: "It's crazy to think they liked my voice that much and gave me the opportunity to be Nia that fast."
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
In a game where the decision tree expands frighteningly fast, both man and machine are only beginning to explore the full extent of a game that has been around for centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Suppliers and retailers are wary of doing too much, too fast.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
“They have been doing it for so long that they have a shorthand, if you don’t get your words out fast enough, they’ve sped past onto a million other ideas,”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Reluctantly we dropped the other things on the heap that was fast becoming a mountain.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
She said she "learns faster" in the practical subject and most teenagers want to do something they enjoy alongside core academic subjects.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The Chinese automaker said Wednesday that its latest charging technology used artificial intelligence to deliver faster charging while reducing heat and improving battery life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
In effect, imitation learning allows the team to capture the behavior of the more computationally demanding controller in a faster AI model that can operate quickly enough for real-time flight.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Rents have grown faster than inflation, and the vacancy rate has fallen by 30%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Your heart feels like when you do elbow circles, contracting and constricting, spinning faster and faster.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
In the left map above, the darkest red areas mark the places where the melt season lengthened fastest during that decade.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
The report, based on a survey of services and manufacturing firms, showed businesses growing at the quickest pace in more than five years and the fastest job growth in more than four years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Yields in the U.S. moved sharply higher after Wednesday’s release of S&P Global’s U.S. flash manufacturing data for September showed the fastest expansion since July 2021 and a fourth straight month of gains.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
The 36-year-old, who is one of the fastest bowlers to ever play for England, has been blighted by injuries throughout his career.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The first pupil with his hand in the air, the fastest player on the soccer field, but for all that, just another kid in Conor’s class.
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
Bishnoi meditates every morning and fasts many days of the month, the cousin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Still, scientists have had only a limited understanding of exactly how the body responds during longer fasts.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
In the following years, they built a flourishing movement fighting for farmworkers’ rights, employing marches, fasts and other nonviolent protest actions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
Community iftar or open iftar events are gaining popularity as well around the country where people of diverse communities and all faiths join Muslims in breaking their fasts and share a meal.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025
He claims this dream to be divinely inspired, and fasts this day.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
He said that he did go to the mosque every Friday, and that he prayed and fasted and raised his children to be good Muslims.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
In came the resistance bands, dead lifts, dumbbells and agility drills, plus a private chef who got a sweet break from 8 p.m. until noon the next day, as Doncic intermittently fasted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2025
When the rats fasted or received insulin, the sensors tracked cytokine levels as they drifted down.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024
He was joined by thousands who fasted with him and held demonstrations.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024
They isolated themselves and fasted for a while.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
In late 2022, Elon Musk posted that he lost 30 pounds by fasting and taking semaglutide.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
People who lowered their protein intake lost weight and body fat and showed improvements in fasting blood sugar, despite often consuming more total calories.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
India's activist Sonam Wangchuk has ended a hunger strike after 26 days of fasting in support of youth-led protesters demanding education reforms.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
At the protest site in the capital Delhi, he began fasting on 28 June and has consumed nothing but salt and water since then, losing more than 9kg.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
He laughed and told it to eat the mouse, for he was fasting, this night being the Festival of Sunreturn.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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