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how

[hau] / haʊ /


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"Being part of a group can never diminish individual responsibility for our own actions, for how we treat others, or for speaking up when someone may be at risk," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

“The Department has not had any conversations about TPS or how it relates to construction projects around the city,” the spokesperson wrote in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Plus, why we sound like chatbots, how El Niño made the Atlantic hurricane season disappear, and the race to build AI defenses against bioweapons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The administration has not detailed how such a $5,000 payment would be funded or enacted.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

The next day, I ask: “Did Ma try to teach you how to read?”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

“The hows and the wherefores can wait, but it’s OK to say that I won that battle … by a story means that I wasn’t expecting.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

"We think it's crucial to understand the hows in order to develop new treatments and new ways of supporting that group of children."

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025

Physicists believe that there must have been some primordial imbalance that allowed matter to dominate the universe, yet the hows and whys remain open questions.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023

This thoughtfully inclusive guide makes a great starting place, supplying the hows and whys of creating an edible garden to further our personal resilience, strength and healing.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023

The officer with four stars kept asking him about the whys, whens, and hows of his family’s escape plan.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden




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