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AI enables traditional cyberattacks to be carried out at greater scale and speed, and networks need to be hardened to address the threat.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
Ediacaran animals, which lived 635-538 million years ago, were ocean dwellers; their remains preserved as cast-like impressions on the seabed that later hardened to rock.
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024
Others, fabricated from translucent amber resin that has hardened to a glossy sheen, are low and horizontal, oozing and puddling across the floor like pools of blood or toxic spills.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2024
The moment the grim rumours hardened to upsetting fact, the tributes started to come in clusters from at home and abroad.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2023
Their strange lumpy shapes looked like something soft that had frozen—like towers of mashed potatoes, Lina thought, that had hardened to stone.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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