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The results illustrate an important challenge in the search for planets beyond our solar system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Mr. Berge uses these stories to illustrate one of his recurring themes: What disgusts in one context can delight in another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Those figures represent ticket sales, not profits, but illustrate the potential value of such an arrangement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

The latest economic numbers amply illustrate the challenge of actually delivering them.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

To illustrate the important binomial probability model, and to provide a numerical example of a statistical test, imagine the following miniature test for ESP.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Instead, it illustrates how even a relatively small release of oxygen from immense quantities of magma could have major planetary consequences.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

That operating margin illustrates that Microsoft is able to retain about half of the revenue that it brings in after accounting for the cost of business operations.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

He writes in there, but it’s a workshop too: he illustrates and he crafts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Friday’s buyback hike is Eni’s third of the year and illustrates how the conflict in the Middle East and record high refining margins are offering energy majors an unexpected windfall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

This example from the Jordan Valley, like that from Tell Abu Hureyra, illustrates that the first farmers used their detailed knowledge of local species to their own benefit.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

In her dissenting opinion, Justice Elena Kagan illustrated the consequences of eliminating these limits with the example of a single check from one individual for $551,300.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

The menus would be illustrated by hand, which sounds charming until you’ve spent an entire afternoon trying to get the shading right on a watercolor artichoke.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

The lavishly illustrated catalog, with wide-ranging, readable essays by Mr. Dalvit and his team, must be the definitive publication on the subject.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

“The Boys” co-creator Darick Robertson illustrated the grinning gargoyle on its label.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Samuel Riddle bore a startling resemblance to the illustrated figure on a Monopoly board.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

The wave of apparent cyberattacks affected at least a half-dozen more countries in Europe, spurring investigations across the continent and illustrating how even mundane physical infrastructure is susceptible to hacking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

The team cited charts illustrating that temperature anomalies lead world food prices by about 12 months.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

In 2003, non-dairy creamer had contributed just 7.71 calories per day, illustrating how dramatically its role in Americans' coffee consumption had changed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

It means that China has the leading two players in the rankings for the first time, further illustrating the country's position as a snooker superpower.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Many more vignettes illustrating this and other simple logical errors might be cited, but the point is clear enough: both innumeracy and defective logic provide a fertile soil for the growth of pseudoscience.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos