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"I remember reading the Seamus Heaney poem Digging, and thinking 'why are we reading a poem about potatoes'. Now he's one of my favourite poets, but it was just another subject I had to learn."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
A lab-raised monkey, born without a fear of snakes, can be taught to fear them—but not to fear flowers, a difference that suggests an inherited readiness to learn a survival strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Not only fans of those teams were anxious to learn his decision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Open models publish their weights, or the numerical values that models learn during training.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Hugo helped me learn how to ride the bicycle.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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At the hospital, Jack learns that the man behind the wheel was Governor George McRyan, a presidential hopeful polling extremely well in the primaries, who left a campaign event with Sally as his escort.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
In an interview with the Financial Times, the Turing Award winner lamented that, although "he learns fast," Wang has "no experience with research" and was on "a dead end" quest.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
She said: "Integration isn't charity, it's common sense. A person who learns English or Welsh, finds work and contributes isn't actually a burden."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Before the narrative kicks in, the movie starts at a museum exhibit where a tour group learns about the history of film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
But when she arrives, she learns that the Thirty-Seventh Division has relocated to Malolos.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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On his June 2026 song “We Know the Truth,” he rejected allegations connecting him to the killing and said he learned after arriving to perform at the festival that someone had been stabbed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Ansari said she learned only this week that the brothers had traveled to D.C. for meetings, including one with Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
As he puts it, natural selection blindly explores a vast “design space”—the trillions of trait combinations a species might have—turning up workable solutions that human designers have learned to borrow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
OpenAI issued a press release explaining what had happened and said it was "partnering with Hugging Face" to address the security incident and share lessons learned.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
“I’d be awful at acting. My ma says that I’ve never learned to control my emotions.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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He also learnt a new skill for the movie: "I did a lot of swordfighting, which I loved".
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
The room, which doubles as a kitchen and bedroom, was decorated with flowers drawn by Habiba's 11-year-old daughter, Nahida, who was practising English that she had learnt at the village school.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
He learnt that he had been born in Bristol and as a baby he had been unwell.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said it was "too early to speculate" on the cause of the crash while vowing "a thorough investigation ... to ensure that lessons are learnt".
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
And, if Maxim was not with me, the hearing of them would be a furtive, rather painful pleasure, guilty knowledge learnt in the dark.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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The biggest capability gain in AI’s history was an alignment technique: Reinforcement learning from human feedback made ChatGPT possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
In the process of learning from past behaviors, we sometimes villainize our former selves.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
"You don't just learn that something is a planet; you immediately begin learning about its temperature, chemistry, and motion."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
The achievement isn’t lost on Jim Tracy, who became so emotional upon learning his son was named interim Red Sox manager he pulled his car to the side of the road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
“You are a regular scholar, Beulah. In two or three years you’ll be learning your multiplication tables.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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