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The monthly jobs reports from January through May help illustrate these trends.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
“It’ll basically illustrate, if we don’t already realize it, that walkability has been sort of a very forgotten stepchild of all of our transportation planning and building over the years.”
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
Mr. Elwes, a mathematical logician and professor at the University of Leeds, enumerates a multitude of such anecdotes—delightful, insightful, informative—to illustrate the bigger picture in “Huge Numbers.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
To illustrate: This year the hyperscalers are set to spend around $700 billion on data centers.
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
To protect their anonymity and illustrate the universality of their experiences, we decided to number each diary entry rather than attach a name.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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