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The latter aren’t presidential appointees and hence are beyond Mr. Trump’s reach.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Hegel was a metaphysician whose insistence that Geist, or spirit, pervades the historical process and moves it to some grand culmination is difficult to distinguish from New Age mysticism, and hence charlatanism.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Retail investors have limited opportunities to get in on trendy private companies that are disrupting the U.S. economy, hence the initial mania.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

Symptoms can be similar to other conditions, hence why it can take such a long time between first seeing a doctor and receiving a diagnosis, according to Endometriosis UK.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

After the fact, eyewitness testimony became a form of virtual witnessing, hence Boyle’s insistence that he did not appeal ‘to other Writers as to Judges, but as to Witnesses’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton