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In the “chain-of-thought” files they created to illustrate their reasoning, they wrote very human-like messages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
But Prof Damian Roland, a practising emergency medicine consultant, notes that the drama does illustrate wider health challenges.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
To illustrate, consider the accompanying chart that plots the relationship between the 20 largest developed countries’ population growth over the 2000-25 period and the corresponding performance of their stock markets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
To illustrate the time savings of building autonomous AI agents with Astra, the company said the model could cut apartment hunting from six hours to under 10 minutes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
All these examples illustrate that wars, or threats of war, have played a key role in most, if not all, amalgamations of societies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The rapid spread illustrates a new normal in the U.S., where falling vaccination rates have made more communities vulnerable to the highly infectious disease that the country declared eliminated more than 25 years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
When the hearings finished, we put together this timeline which illustrates how events unfolded.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Hegel’s reading of “Antigone” illustrates his thesis-antithesis-synthesis view of dialectical progress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The accompanying chart illustrates how strong the seasonal headwinds are during this period.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
“It really illustrates that even those of us with a lot of attention still have a breaking point.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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That illustrated the sense of satisfaction she felt after winning a title few had predicted - not because of her game but her history in New York.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
And if you need help keeping straight your behemoths, bonnacons and other mythical creatures, interior art by Ashley Mackenzie, as well as a bestiary illustrated by Virginia Allyn, serve as helpful guides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
That beats the average loss of 3% seen for September when the S&P 500 begins the month below its 200-day moving average, as illustrated in the chart below.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Then came illustrated guides purporting to explain how an anxious shopper might distinguish horse meat from cow meat by color, texture, fat and smell.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Instead, the weekly illustrated newspapers and magazines published drawings produced by their own artists.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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However, City have also achieved around £300m worth of player sales this summer, illustrating the vast turnover at the start of the post-Guardiola era.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
In recent years, Unite Here Local 11 has filed numerous complaints over the Inglewood facility, claiming various wage and health issues, illustrating a bitter battle over movement at the bargaining table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
That’s more than 3% of the country’s adult population, illustrating the feverish extent of stock market speculation and the danger of leverage.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Most of these well-performing vehicles are larger products, illustrating the continued appeal of such vehicles in the United States.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
And I really have gotten better at illustrating people.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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