inroads
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Reclaim human intimacy: As A.I. makes inroads into all aspects of society, are chatbots damaging our capacity to maintain relationships with real people?
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026
Apple Pay has made meaningful inroads with shoppers, and browsers make it easy for users to store their payment credentials online.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
It comes at a time when federal investigators are continuing to probe the ways the Chinese government has made inroads into local governments and with elected officials across Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Yet there are reasons to doubt advanced open-weight models—particularly those from China—will make major inroads in the AI race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
There was little doubt that Hispanics in Odessa, with their swelling population, were making inroads.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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