generic

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Based on Rededicate 250’s marketing, most of the program looks likely to avoid overtly political rhetoric in favor of generic prayers calling on God to bless the country.

From Salon • May 15, 2026

For generic repurposing, pull funding rewards researchers only when a generic drug proves it delivers benefits for a new use and is adopted for that use.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Aspirin prevents heart attacks, and good policy could give other generic drugs a second life.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

There is also little incentive for new companies to step in and start making generic patches, due to low profit margins.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

The generic rubric ‘theists’ covers Jewish rabbis from eighteenth-century Poland, witch-burning Puritans from seventeenth-century Massachusetts, Aztec priests from fifteenth-century Mexico, Sufi mystics from twelfth-century Iran, tenth-century Viking warriors, second-century Roman legionnaires, and first-century Chinese bureaucrats.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari