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Scotland's attack can be a thing of wonder, capable of creating space and delivering sensational tries against the very best teams on the planet.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Founder Bob James said he was pleased to see the business move to what he described as "a long-term home", capable of supporting AerFin's next phase of expansion.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
A virus capable of killing one strain of bacteria may have little or no effect on another.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Investigators probing Sunday’s deadly crash are trying to learn what led the pilots to fly into a dangerous thunderstorm capable of ice, hail and turbulence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
“And, unlike Charlotte, I wasn’t using a supercomputer capable of performing over five hundred trillion floating-point operations per second.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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