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But it provides fresh context, because the PCE release incorporated the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s annual update, including revisions reaching back to 2021.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 4, 2026
"In the Philippine context, it is also connected to questions of trust, politics, and people's previous experiences with vaccination and public health institutions," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
This public forum thing is a little bit complicated in this context because there are actually multiple public forums here.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026
He meant that music is nonrepresentational—it speaks in a language of rhythms and harmonies, and any meaning we ascribe to it is our own projection, informed by context or habits of mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Marc Mauer, the executive director of the Sentencing Project, notes that what is most remarkable about the moratorium campaign in retrospect is the context of imprisonment at the time.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
“We found some subtle but consistent differences in the pitch and length of meows between those two contexts, suggesting maybe cats have different meows for ‘Where did you go?’ and ‘You’re back!’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Wildfire risk depends on how landscapes are managed as well as on the ecological and social contexts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Hannah says she had no emotional connection to her previous surname, and it often confused people when she would use two surnames in different contexts.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
"We are planning on further extending the experimental methods to delve deeper into different systems on our planet in different contexts, the possibilities are, quite literally, out of this world," says Noto.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Since what is often at stake in moral choices is confidence that one has got the facts right, the term was extended to other contexts in which people make judgements about questions of fact.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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