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Earlier this month, the medical center settled with the department anyway, agreeing to pay $950,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
OpenAI has been at the center of new concerns over uncontrolled AI activity.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
And at the center of it all is a quarterback who so far seems entirely unfazed by that outside pressure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Like the Sun and other stars, it travels around the center of the Milky Way.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
A beautiful lady, mounted on a magnificent white horse, was in the center of it.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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He added that, with some political pushback against the construction of data centers, “there are questions of whether or not the capacity can be brought online.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Earlier this year, banks struggled to sell billions of dollars of loans they made to build data centers leased to Oracle in Texas and Wisconsin, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Her known real estate history instead centers on the family property where she grew up and the Los Angeles rentals she has used while pursuing her acting career.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
What they are focused on now is artificial intelligence and the energy needed to power data centers, much like the rest of the investment world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
New Guinea thus joins the Fertile Crescent, China, and a few other regions as one of the world’s centers of independent origins of plant domestication.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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There, the discussion shifted from seven-part heroes’ journeys centered on skipping little luxuries like Starbucks to drink-based dominance theory.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Although such stories can be useful, the article suggests that narratives centered on discovery, cooperation and curiosity can encourage audiences to imagine what might go right rather than merely anticipate disaster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Much of the previous research has centered on inflammation in the brain and changes in immune activity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
In one scenario, many countries would trade relatively freely within geopolitical blocs likely centered on the U.S. and China, but commerce between those blocs would be limited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Using sun-dried brick as a basic building block, the Mesopotamians devised complex cities centered around the temple.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
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“My job is to always be centering folks in the work.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Hershey Pa.’s Christian Pulisic set up a sequence that led to a Paraguay own goal, and then, not long after, zipped a centering pass to the 24-year-old Balogun to make it 2-0.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Going into the tournament there was a lot of talk centering on how Aronimink could prove too easy for the world's best.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
She calls herself a “Jewish woman challenging the incumbent” and is centering her campaign on public safety, including law enforcement, fire and probation, emergency preparedness and confronting antisemitism.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Much of the centering was also in place.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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