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Because each artificial neuron can produce more complex signals, fewer components are needed to perform advanced tasks.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026

According to a report published earlier this year by the Congressional Budget Office, America’s population is predicted to have roughly 8 million fewer residents by 2055.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026

While there are about 1,000 fewer mortgage deals on the market than before the war, there are still thousands to choose from, and lenders are offering bigger loans than previously to new buyers.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

I have read before sleep no fewer than four scientific or science-adjacent books by James Gleick: “Chaos,” “The Information,” “Time Travel” and his biography of Richard Feynman, “Genius.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Very few occupations in the nineteenth century were open to women, fewer still to abandoned mothers.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock